› added 2 years ago

398

TIL that Tuvalu (a Pacific island nation) leased the rights to the .tv domain in 1999 for $50 million; the deal trebled their entire national income, and one of the first things they bought was a membership in the United Nations

Read more theguardian.com

via reddit.com

Y7Bwr TIL: French was the official language of England for around 300 years.
neP0b TIL how the human introduced Burmese python is destroying the everglades
Egk10 TIL the small white flowers along roadsides in the UK is called Danish Scurvy Grass, a coastal plant that thrives in the central reservation due to winter road salt accumulation.
J1Nal Til about kermitops, an extinct amphibian named after Kermit the Frog (the Muppets). The name means Kermit's face in ancient Greek.
o4bY TIL that when The Artist Formerly Known As Prince changed is name to the ‘Love Symbol’ in 1993, Warner Bros. had to organize a mass mailing of floppy disks with a custom font in order to use the symbol in print media.