› added 1 year ago

39

TIL that one of the waitresses on the show "Alice" was supposed to be a relative of Jefferson Davis "Boss" Hogg, the white-suited Southern crimelord from "The Dukes of Hazzard."

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

rR5MW TIL 40% of British government expenditure in 1833 was compensation paid to slave owners following abolition. The amount borrowed to fund this wasn’t paid of until 2015.
m1ERP TIL that a painting by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, that was believed lost for 100 years, has been found in Vienna.
rEYd TIL that in 2002, Kenyan Masai tribespeople donated 14 cows to to the U.S. to help with the aftermath of 9/11.
nNOb TIL Genghis Khan raped so many woman that every 1 in 200 people today are descended from him
oBXXY TIL that there's a town in Michigan called Zilwaukee, which was named so that people would confuse it with Milwaukee and move there to work