› added 9 years ago

190

TIL The names for domestic food animals while they’re alive, come from the lower class Anglo-Saxons who tended them, and the word for their meat come from the upper class Norman French who could afford to eat them.

Read more everything2.com

via reddit.com

YgR7 TIL Karl Pilkington’s brother was kicked out the Army for driving a tank down the high street to get some Cigarettes
YDyA TIL There is a One-Million Dollar Award for Anyone that can Demonstrate that they have a Paranormal or Supernatural Ability
QJrVX TIL Aladdin was actually a Chinese tale, and the Arabian Nights weren't exclusively in Arabia.
5V0ER TIL that some Catholic priest pedos DO face justice within the US
PrdG TIL of Ming the Clam that, when discovered, it was the oldest living animal ever discovered…until the Scientists observing the clam killed it.