› added 7 years ago

115

TIL: When Carthaginian explorer Hanno reached the Ivory Coast ~600-500 bc, he thought Gorillas were a race of humans and tried to capture some. He ended up killing them for being too violent and took their skins back to Carthage to put on display.

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

DQ50p TIL about the War of the Bucket. It was fought in 1325 between the rival city-states of Bologna and Modena, in Italy. A common myth surrounding the war is that it was caused by the Modenese stealing a bucket from a Bolognese well. Modena won the Battle of Zappolino, the only battle of the war
mxloP TIL All Fruit Loops taste the same regardless of color.
J1KXQ TIL about “The Asoh Defense”, a term used for taking the blame when you're at fault. It’s named after a Japanese pilot named Kohei Asoh, who crash landed a full passenger jet in the San Francisco Bay in 1968. When asked what happened, he said: “As you Americans say, I f-cked up.”
94xB TIL the word ‘Homeboy’ goes back to the 1800’s, and was used by African Americans to refer to each other as people from 'back home’.
awjyN TIL In the GTA IV (A very popular 2000s video game), the drunk driving feature sparked massive controversy that MADD requested the game be rated from Mature to Adults Only.