› added 1 month ago

4

TIL that Harriet Tubman was posthumously commissioned a one star Brigadier General in the Maryland National Guard for her Civil War service as a scout, spy, and leader of an armed raid that freed >700 enslaved people.

Read more smithsonianmag.com

via reddit.com

ONe TIL after winning 4 gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, African-American track star Jesse Owens was not invited to the White House or recognized in any way by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Instead, it was Adolf Hitler who gave Owens a special commemorative gift.
65e8 TIL that the 2022 World Cup final will be played in Lusail, Qatar, a city that does not exist yet.
olMA TIL that they used to call it “the calculus” (as in, I’ve studied the calculus, Newton invented the calculus, etc) because “calculus” used to be a generic name for any abstract theory until “the calculus” overshadowed all the other calculuses.
a8wXb TIL athletes use menthol to stay cool, but overdose and death is possible
J7Vk TIL the letter ‘Q’ was illegal in Turkey until last month