› added 5 years ago

150

TIL Charles Darwin ate every animal he ever discovered. Seeking out “birds and beasts which were unknown to human palate.”

Read more npr.org

via reddit.com

M7R0 TIL the word “nothing” was Elizabethan slang for vagina and that the play “Much Ado About Nothing” was a shameless, dirty pun
kOwE7 TIL that nearly 75 percent of all Rolls-Royce cars ever built are still on the road.
5jk9 TIL $1 billion dollars (12% of GDP) was stolen from 3 Moldovan banks in 2014, a main culprit was elected Mayor in 2015.
0dkbM Today I learned that Tigger's iconic "TTFN" catchphrase was ad-libbed by Paul Winchell at the suggestion of his wife.
QJ8o9 TIL that the earliest written record of the Finnish language is someone saying "I want to speak Finnish, [but] I am not able".