› added 11 years ago

298

TIL that because of a constitution error, North Dakota technically never met the requirements of statehood, and until 2012 was technically never a state.

Read more newsfeed.time.com

via reddit.com

GAJKN TIL Greek language uses the English semicolon (;) as a question mark (?), while the colon (:) and semicolon (;) are performed by a raised point (·)
wLeYE TIL Steven Spielberg didn’t want to direct Indiana Jones because it was planned to be a trilogy and he didn’t want to write 2 more scripts. George Lucas told him not to worry as he’d already written them, but when time came for the first sequel, Lucas revealed he’d written nothing for either sequel.
d8ood TIL in the 1990’s, a group of Mazda engineers created a suitcase “car” from a large Samsonite suitcase and a pocket bike; the suitcase car took just a minute to assemble and had a top speed of 30 km/h (18.46 mph)
xVQ40 TIL: In the last 100 years, more people have been killed by a dog in each single year than the total killed by sharks for all 100 years combined.
9O7G TIL that King George VI was appalled when the South African government instructed him to only shake hands with white people while on his visit there in 1947. He referred to his South African bodyguards as “the Gestapo”.