› added 6 years ago

78

TIL Erik the Red was a Viking who was exiled from Norway for murder so he moved to Iceland but again was exiled for murder. So he took 500 men & women, founded Greenland, & declared himself chieftain.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

OGnJg TIL that the dream of "teeth falling out" seems to be a pattern for citizens living in western countries
V6bp TIL during WWII the Federal Reserve printed special money for Hawaii to make it easy to render the bills useless if the Japanese overtook Hawaii.
oRn6r TIL that the fat chinese buddha is actually "Budai" a chinese monk from the 10th century, not Gautama.
165G7 TIL of the largest floating vessel ever built, the Shell Prelude Floating Liquified Natural Gas platform
p8YD4 TIL that Olympic gold medalist sprinter Shawn Crawford was once disqualified from a race because he wore a Phantom of the Opera mask to a race and it shifted over his eyes, causing him to step out of his lane.