› added 7 years ago

216

TIL that former President of Uruguay, José Mujica, was considered the poorest president in the world and would donate 90 percent of his $12,000 monthly salary to charities and would even wait his turn at public hospitals.

Read more bbc.com

via ift.tt

RPY7 TIL a Tiger’s tongue is so course, it can lick flesh down to the bone.
PYP8G TIL that none of the architecture on Euro banknotes is real, as the EU prohibited displaying any national monuments, so to not give greater prominence to one country over another. Hence, for the €5 note, a computer was used to scan multiple European bridges and combine them into one neutral design.
LQxer TIL that not only is the Vatican City a country, but it is also the world’s smallest country by both area and population
Wk5xX TIL The philosopher Aristotle wrote in his Poetics (c. 335 BC) that comedy is a representation of inferior people, not indeed in the full sense of the word bad, but the laughable is a species of the base or ugly. It consists in some blunder or ugliness that does not cause pain or disaster
XEYEj TIL that sliced bread was banned in 1943 to save money and help the economy during World War II