› added 4 years ago

84

TIL that the Ancient Egyptians had a solar calendar with 365 days, and was a basis on which the Julian calendar was established in Rome.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

4vn5 TIL one of Brigham Young’s 55 wives bravely divorced him and wrote the best seller “Wife No. 19,” an autobiography lambasting Mormonism and polygamy.
MlG7 TIL That an orangutan at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha Nebraska had learned to pick locks with a piece of wire that he had hidden in his mouth.
v1o8j TIL that "second" (after first) is the same word as "second" (a 60th of a minute), because we get a minute from dividing the hour by 60, and then we divide it a second time.
V9K8 TIL that the shortest scientific paper published, “The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of writer’s block”, was written by Dennis Upper and published in 1974. It contains no text except for the title.
ANDpg TIL that the Channel Tunnel was originally proposed in 1802 and construction was attempted in 1880. Two tunnels were dug but the project was scrapped due to fears of invasion. The tunnels and the boring machine still exist under the Channel.