› added 1 year ago

39

TIL the Whiskey Wars between Canada and Denmark ended in 2022 having both countries no longer a country bordering only one country. Canada to US and Denmark to Germany.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

NEe TIL the governor of Maine is against state marriage and would prefer civil unions for homosexual and heterosexual couples alike
m1a8p TIL During his Nashville days in the early 1970s, EddieRabbitt had a pet monkey, Jojo. Before his Rocky Mountain Music tour, the monkey bit Rabbitt, leaving his right arm in bandages.
XERvX TIL the expression “How do you like them apples” supposedly originated during the first World War, when the Allies’ anti-tank grenade was colloquially called a “toffee apple” because of its bulb-like appearance on a stick. The phrase was a taunt against the enemy.
6E10X TIL about Risus sardonicus, a spasm of your facial muscles that make you look like you have a devious grin
x6Xeo TIL nachos were invented in living memory and named after their creator