› added 1 year ago

56

TIL New Mexico was named 223 years before the naming of Mexico in 1821.

Read more worldatlas.com

via reddit.com

gMJA8 TIL, that King George VI, Elizabeth II's father, was the first British Monarch to visit the U.S since the American Revolution
6Wn7 TIL Mountain Dew was created as a mixer for whiskey
d8708 TIL, that the British Navy would use Britney Spears song to scare off Somali Pirates
7rDZX TIL in Japan the majority of adoptees are childless adult males, adopted by families needing a strong heir for their businesses
epnv4 TIL: Gaston Glock began as a manufacturer of curtain rods in the 1960s, and knives for the Austrian military in the 1970s, and did not design or manufacture a firearm until he was 52 years old