› added 5 years ago

76

TIL that Estonian, despite being an finno-urgric language that’s closely related to Finnish, borrowed about 1/3 of it vocabulary from Germanic language (german and low Saxon)

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

woN5P TIL that U.S. President Polk made a deal with exiled Mexican general Santa Anna to lift the American blockade of Mexico so he could return and hand over territory. To the dismay of the Americans, Santa Anna immediately reneged on the deal and took up arms in the Mexican-American War.
9YONM TIL Cincinnati Built a Subway System 100 Years Ago–But Never Used It
R79o4 TIL that tally sticks were used for hundreds of years to record financial transactions. When workmen were ordered to dispose of old sticks they accidentally burned down the Palace of Westminster.
E1Djo TIL of Narcotizing Dysfunction. A theory where you obsessively follow the news until it tricks your brain that you are doing something about it, when in reality you are doing shit.
MeWZa TIL of Doozy Bots, an early attempt in 1991 to bring the Gundam anime franchise to the US. It involved a "Professor Doozy" turning a group of kids into various robots to fight other robots that went haywire. No networks picked up the series.