› added 6 years ago

208

TIL that a Turkish Sultan offered £10000 in aid to Ireland during the Potato Famine but Queen Victoria asked him to send £1000 as she had only sent £2000 herself.

Read more irishcentral.com

via reddit.com

mxwMM TIL the woman in the 'woman yelling at the cat' meme was actually arguing with a group of people who were accusing her of making up her husband's abuse, who almost blinded her
kJ5VB TIL that American soldiers during WWII often mutilated the Japanese and took their body parts as “war trophies”, Franklin Roosevelt was even sent a gift of a Japanese soldier’s arm.
0d1YR TIL that Chang and Eng Bunker, not only were the original "Siamese twins," but after traveling the world and making a pretty penny from exhibiting themselves, settled in North Carolina, became U.S. citizens, bought/owned slaves, and married two sisters whom they produced 21 children with.
9wdjM TIL that Frank Vallelonga, or Tony Lip, the real-life bodyguard of pianist Don Shirley portrayed by Vigo Mortesen in the 2018 movie The Green Book, grew up to play Carmine Lupertazzi in the Sopranos.
698EW TIL that gta 5 can run on mobile using a thing called mobox emulator