› added 6 years ago

88

TIL There has been an officially-appointed (by Prime Minister) Wizard of New Zealand since 1990.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

J1gmB TIL former dictator of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov ordered the closure of all libraries outside the capital in the belief that all Turkmen are illiterate.
xVB07 TIL Happy Days was originally a sitcom centering around a Midwestern family that just purchased their first TV set (the first one in the neighborhood!) and how the teenage son planned to use the TV as a chick magnet
9YZX6 TIL that Cleopatra was not Egyptian. While Cleopatra was born in Egypt, she traced her family origins to Macedonian Greece and Ptolemy I Soter. Ptolemy took the reigns of Egypt after Alexander’s death in 323 B.C. and he launched a dynasty of Greek-speaking rulers that lasted for three centuries
4kk0R TIL that the iTunes Terms of Service includes a section prohibiting you from developing nuclear weapons using it.
jrKj TIL Valve has a flat organisation structure where everybody has an equal voice and anybody can ship a product