› added 3 years ago

87

TIL deer’s antler is not horn, but a dead bone which jutting from it’s head

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

XO16 TIL that when Hitler forced the French to surrender during WW2 he did so on the site where the Germans were forced to surrender in WW1. Not only that but he found the same train carriage used in WW1 and forced the French to sign a surrender in that same train carriage.
0OON TIL Make Love Not Warcraft from South Park almost caused Trey Parker to lose it because he thought it was so remarkably bad, but it ended up to be regarded as one of the best South Park episodes ever created.
DmWg TIL in 1941 the world’s largest seed bank (created by botanist Nikolai Vavilov) was housed in Leningrad. As the Germans surrounded the city forcing mass starvation, Vavilov’s scientists refused to eat from the collection, slowly dying of hunger as they maintained 16 rooms of edible plants.
oBOPK TIL 4 out of 5 millennials have never eaten a Big Mac before, showing how McDonald's is struggling to compete with new, fast-casual burger joints
oBVXR TIL Many Medieval texts contain graphical commentary such as drawings of heroic knights fighting giant snails. Many have lost their cultural context and historians can only speculate as to their original meaning.