› added 10 years ago

144

TIL that the last letter added to the alphabet was J

Read more blog.dictionary.com

via reddit.com

oB1dL TIL A man shaved his beard on Tinder to see how his results would change. The beard profile received more matches (64 out of 94) and generally received twice as many matches from white women as the non-beard profile. More Asian women preferred non beard
R7pE7 TIL that after the Great Fire of Rome during the reign of Nero, Lyons sent Rome a large sum of money to help. A year later, Lyons itself suffered a great fire, and Nero send them the same amount of money.
8abdV TIL if you pee in the shower every day you’ll save an approximate 1000 gallons per person per year If every American did it we would conserve over 209 billion gallons of water a year topic starts at 2:08
b9MW7 TIL that the Greece's modern navy has a trireme, based on ancient Athenian designs. The ship is designed for a crew of 10 spearmen, 4 archers, 10 sailors, 5 officers, a flutist, and 170 oarsmen, with a 450 lb bronze ram for ramming other ships.
4XB5N TIL that’s rats can laugh. It’s inaudible to humans at 50kHz.