› added 3 months ago

10

TIL medieval England began adopting the A.D. system in the 8th century, influenced by Saint Bede's work on the dating of Easter and his Ecclesiastical History, with wider adoption across Europe after Charlemagne's 9th-century coronation.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

BrwbK TIL the computer term "software bug" is because a moth got stuck in a Mark II relay, causing errors in their computer output
Bl9b TIL that, in order to communicate with the Shoshone tribe, Lewis and Clark would speak English to Corps member Francois Labiche, who would speak French to the interpreter Toussaint Charbonneau, who would speak Hidatsa to his Shoshone wife Sacagawea, who would speak Shoshone to Chief Cameahwait.
wolKo TIL that the olympic torch relay was invented by the Nazis at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin as a way for Hitler to spread Nazi influence to other countries. It is a tradition that has taken place at every game since.
M7KvW TIL the popular drink Yakult gets its name from the Esperanto word for yogurt, "jahurto"
yVbeX TIL the first Chinese student to graduate from an American university, Yung Wing, arrived at Yale in 1850 and later helped send 120 more students to America.