› added 10 months ago

38

TIL of the town Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Québec. The the only town in the world with two exclamation points in its name.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

yVlbv TIL that Sylvester Stallone claims he remembers several past lives including one in which he was beheaded by a guillotine.
MBGB TIL 7 million American children suddenly disappeared in 1987 when the IRS started demanding that their Social Security numbers be included on the tax return of those claiming them as dependents.
GY5KQ TIL that Mongols used Wicker shields which means the cuisine legend of “mongols grilling meat on their shields” has been debunked by this SCA article.
x9Gg TIL: Liberia was a founding member of the UN and a successful African nation…until 1980 when a USA-backed coup assassinated the President, and executed the entire government. Liberia collapsed into a civil war and never recovered.
p8p4 TIL that Nazis forged british pounds with a total value of 134,610,810. Their plan was to destabilise the British economy. The notes are considered among the most perfect counterfeits ever produced, being almost impossible to distinguish from the real currency.