› added 3 months ago

19

TIL Iroquois and Mohawk warriors participated in the battle of Queenston Heights (1812) and were crucial to winning the battle

Read more youtube.com

via reddit.com

KOmW4 TIL before the WWII Battle of Okinawa, the Japanese military forced Okinawan boys as young as 14 to fight against the US invasion. They weren't expected to win so the boys were given suicide missions. The only weapon most were given were 2 grenades - one for the US solders the other for themselves.
D14Zj TIL that after only 73 years of separation, the Korean language spoken in the North and South have diverged so that 45% of North Korean defectors have trouble understanding South Koreans and 1% can't understand South Koreans at all
e8Kk TIL that the reason so many traditional legal terms come in pairs (aid and abet, null and void, part and parcel, will and testament) is that old English courts used English terms along with Latin or French terms to avoid confusion.
49ko TIL King Edward VII was too fat to fully button his suit jacket. In order to not offend the king, everyone else followed suit. A trend was born…
OGN4L TIL due to an error caused by a failed switch to the Gregorian calendar, Sweden had February 30th on their calendar in 1712 -