› added 4 years ago

60

TIL that a small population of Mammoths survived on the Wrangel Island, Russia until 1650 BC, about 900 years after the construction of The Great Pyramid of Giza were completed.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

PYdLV TIL it is a criminal offence in the United Kingdom to intentionally drive through a puddle and splash someone, which carries fines of up to £5000 (about US$6500)
75GZ TIL a man bought a $400 shipping container and found a $2,000,000 Canadian warship engine inside
jN1np TIL that while Screen Actors Guild members earn an average of $52,000 a year, the vast majority take home less than $1,000 a year from acting jobs.
AxNo TIL that the Russians partied so hard once WWII ended, that the entire city of Moscow ran out of Vodka
Z8O04 TIL there was a rumor in the 1960s that Japan made products in a town called Usa which were then exported to the US with the label "MADE IN USA" to make them appear as if they were made in the US.