› added 3 months ago

14

TIL Princess Alice of Battenberg, the mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II, organized soup kitchens and orphanages during the Nazi occupation of Greece. She would give away her own food to people on the street and she hid Jews in her home. She was also born deaf.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

Vab0 TIL that U.K. Kids Spend Less Time Outside than Prison Inmates
Zp4lG TIL February 22nd is National Margarita Day, a fictitious food holiday for Margarita lovers.
7rQmP TIL that wombats can run at a speed of 40km/h, 3km/h faster than Usain Bolt's average running speed during his world record. They also make cubic dung, which is thought to be so they can mark their territory without the dung rolling away
OoJgg TIL of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) That Requires a Do Not Sell My Personal Information Link, Effective Jan. 1 2020
krQB TIL that in Dublin, Irish Car Bomb cocktail is known as a “Nine-Eleven” as Americans often order it without thinking of the offense it can cause.