› added 11 months ago

32

TIL that the colonel-in-chief of the Norwegian King's Guard is a king penguin named Nils Olav III

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

7roDP TIL- Private Baker and his comrades came under attack by a Japanese force. Baker was hit early. His comrades left him propped against a tree and gave him a pistol, which had eight bullets, American forces retook the position, they found the pistol, and eight dead Japanese soldiers around Baker.
78gKb TIL That Cayenne pepper for weight loss: capsaicin in cayenne pepper increase metabolism and helps burn fat. It also promotes satiety, which reduces food intake.
DRRp TIL that the Casa Bonita restaurant from South Park is a real place and pretty much exactly as described by Cartman in the episode
P1YQO TIL Weezer's Number 1 hit, a cover of Toto's Africa, came to be because of a persistent 14-year old who created a Twitter account and wouldn't stop asking the band to cover the song.
9Yl7r TIL that Napoleon Bonaparte ,when asked by his mistress, only allowed his Bastard son to have half of his name. So the baby was christened Léon.