› added 8 years ago

125

TIL that a moment is a medieval unit of time equal to approximately 90 modern seconds

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

0wDGL TIL Eminem broke the "Fastest rap in a #1 single" world record three times in a row - after having set the record with 6.46 words per second in "Rap God", he then broke it in "Majesty" at 6.5 wps and later broke it once again by rapping at 7.5 wps in "Godzilla".
6El5w TIL Mary Kay Letourneau's father John G. Schmitz once ran for President of the United States, and was such an extreme right-winger, the ultra-conservative John Birch Society expelled him
gBnW TIL the Labrador dog is from Newfoundland and the Newfoundland dog is from Labrador.
X5kX TIL that the largest caliber rifle ever made is a .905 and that its bullets cost $40
Brxer TIL of Hind al-Husseini, a Palestinian woman who rescued 55 orphaned survivors of the Deir Yassin massacre. She converted her grandfather's mansion into an orphanage to house them, which became a school providing education to orphans and other children from Palestinian towns and villages.