› added 5 months ago

25

TIL that in 1200 years Baghdad got attacked and besieged 16 times

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

kORe4 TIL during the Vietnam war, many American soldiers stationed in Japan went AWOL and fled to Sweden. Swedish PM Palme was vehemently against the war and promised that he would grant asylum to deserters.
VMZ7p TIL Agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation, with 24% of converted land going to farming. Palm oil however plays an approximately 2.4% part.
VBwNp TIL narrative principle Chekhov's gun states that every element in a story must be necessary e.g., if you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following act it should be fired. Otherwise, don't put it there. Thus, I finally found the right word to express my frustration with Game of Thrones
ADnGl TIL Peter Mills, the last surviving American slave, died in 1972 at the age of 110
6Zxl TIL English sailors on the HMS Dolphin in 1766 discovered that native women on islands would trade sex for iron, and began pulling nails out, causing loss of the ship’s structural integrity.