› added 5 years ago

69

TIL that there is a theory that Cinderella's unique glass slipper was not a case of confusion between the French words vair (fur) and verre (glass), but actually a deliberate innuendo, since the prince had the right to "try on the fur slipper of all the maidens in the kingdom". (Droit de seigneur)

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

5VwVP TIL Leonardo DiCaprio was given his name because, during his mother's pregnancy, she was observing a Leonardo da Vinci painting in an Italian museum when DiCaprio first kicked.
8eEYV TIL lack of sleep causes frequent urination due to increased sodium in the urine, particularly in men, per the National Library of Medicine article.
8axJZ TIL W. E. B. Du Bois envisioned "an Encyclopedia Africana," named like the Encyclopædia Britannica. Du Bois envisioned a scientific and comprehensive work on Africa and Africans that would refute the Enlightenment notion of blacks as devoid of civilization. Due to lack of support, the project died
J9e4 TIL there are 17 different phases of ice which are created under various temperatures and pressures.
78MXZ TIL in 2007, a woman successfully appealed her case after being sentenced for breastfeeding her infant while driving on the Ohio Turnpike because her car was registered in Michigan and the judge ruled that the state law forbidding breastfeeding while driving only applied to cars registered in Ohio.