› added 6 years ago

190

TIL that the nation of Barbados has a Rihanna Day on February the 22th to celebrate their most famous celebrity.

Read more barbadospropertylist.com

via reddit.com

woZR8 TIL the Merina people are the Largest ethnic group of Madagascar. Their origins are a mix of Southeast Asians and Bantu Africans. The official language of Madagascar is Malagasy, spoken by 25 million people, originates from Indonesia
R5e89 TIL The first major screenplay to incorporate synchronized sound, moving film, and color slides was an 8-hour alternative history film prophesizing the end of the world and costed approximately an equivalent of $9,418,000 in today's money
MEL8 TIL that in 2002, a high school student ‘inspired by 9/11’ flew a stolen Cessna plane into the Bank of America building. He was the only casualty.
4XNjo TIL ornithologist Helen Hays has lived for six months of the year since 1969 on Great Gull Island (a remote, critical nesting area for migrating birds) to help restore the island's ecosystem for threatened terns. Due to her work on the island, the tern population was successfully recovered.
m1MmO TIL In Iceland, family names are not commonly used, instead the use of patronymics (or matronymics in recent years) are favored by law. A patronymic (or patronym) is based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (an avonymic), or earlier male ancestor.