› added 2 years ago

66

TIL about the Peace of Westphalia. Modeled from ancient Egypt, the Peace of Westphalia was meant to bring world peace and religious freedom while at the same time acknowledging a collective group occupying a certain area, giving rise to countries.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

VMLP8 TIL that the Olympic flag's colors are always red, black, blue, green, and yellow rings on a field of white. This is because at least one of those colors appears on the flag of every nation on the planet.
Oogj6 TIL that Alaska is technically the Northernmost, Westernmost AND EASTERMOST point in the United States, because it crosses the International Date Line.
9wMA6 TIL that in 2016, Saturday Night Live Korea faced controversy when female staffers groped members of K-Pop bands B1A4, INFINITE and B Block.
GY8GN TIL that in 2002 NASA interns stole Moon Rocks worth $30 million, then drove to a motel and had sex on them, before trying to sell them to an amateur mineralogist from belgium
84o4 TIL in 1973 the artist Salvador Dali did a painting depicting Adolf Hitler masturbating on a snowy hillside