› added 8 years ago

1529

TIL The stereotypical American southern accent is an aristocratic British accent with a southern lilt.

Read more youtube.com

via ift.tt

VMNEm TIL "Lift Every Voice and Sing" (or "Black National Anthem") was publicly performed first as a poem as part of a celebration of Abraham Lincoln's birthday by John Rosamond Johnson.
AN6Qa TIL United States is the only country in the world which applies the same tax regime to all its citizens, regardless of where they live
kOQY7 TIL that a thumb between the index and middle finger (Fig Sign, also known as the "Got your nose!" hand) is a disused hand signal that means "sex" in Japanese.
v10gD TIL about the Hummingbird hawk-moth, which are often mistaken for hummingbirds because of the similar way that they hover and feed.
eAan TIL That Sony Created an OS to Turn Any Older PS2 Into a Desktop Computer In 2002