› added 8 years ago

152

TIL that the traditional way to pronounce Julius Caesar, is (yewl-yoos kay-i-sarr), showing where the imperial titles of Russian ‘Czar/Tsar’ or 'Kaiser’, in German, had their origins in Classical Latin and more than 2000 years as a legacy to Caesar’s family name.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

0d8eL TIL that since its discovery Pluto has not made a full orbit around the sun, and still has 150 years until it does
oBbvK TIL German author Hermann Hesse's mother was born in India. His grandfather compiled the Malayalam language, wrote the English-Malayalam dictionary & translated the Bible from English to Malayalam. This all lead to his 1922 novel 'Siddhartha'.
lo1AN TIL of Katalin Karády a Hungarian actress in the '40s who was jailed, tortured and nearly beaten to death for allegedly spying and her movies and songs got banned. Later she emigrated to New York and opened a hat salon. When she was invited back to Hungary she didn't go but sent them a hat instead.
b9NeE TIL that there are more living organisms in one teaspoon of soil than there are humans on earth. Happy World Soil Day!
YvJP TIL Red placebo pills are more effective than Blue placebo pills