› added 7 months ago

20

TIL Seagulls actually prey on live whales by picking out pieces of flesh

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

rRXg4 TIL In-N-Out Burger used to have a phone number where someone gave you directions to the nearest burger location
8aYEK TIL that between 991 and 1018, the Anglo-Saxon kings of England paid an important economic tribute to the Viking invaders worth circa 2.8 million troy oz in silver coins. This explains why today there are still more Anglo-Saxon silver coins in Denmark than in England.
7rnO7 TIL measuring tapes have many hidden features, such as a scribe.
Wkv1d TIL In Saxony, sometime in the early 1900s, a lady asked a man standing in uniform on a train station platform to move her trunk. He replied "Madam, I am not a porter; I only look like one". The man turned out to be Frederick August III, King of Saxony.
Axlw TIL in 2004, a Mario game had a transgender playable character with a subplot about being accepted by her family. This was censored in the American version.