› added 7 years ago

81

TIL Kamehameha was the founder of the Kingdom of Hawaii

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

Wk4G9 TIL what about progressive JPEG. A method of compressing and loading images on the Web
XEMVQ TIL that the original idea behind Marge Simpson’s hair was to conceal large rabbit ears. The gag was intended to be revealed in the final episode of the series, but they weren’t expecting the show to last 30 years
ZPMY TIL that “in darkness most people eventually adjust to a 48-hour cycle: 36 hour of activity followed by 12 hours of sleep. The reasons are still unclear.”
w59J TIL blonde hair, colorful contact lenses, and wearing tape to pretend you had a nose job is in style for young Iranian women
BrnWk TIL about Madame Popova who operated a murder-for-hire service in Russia that specialized in liberating married women from their cruel husbands for a fee. She murdered over 300 victims, by using poison, her own hands, a weapon, or hiring an assassin.