› added 6 years ago

77

TIL that it is suggested that "in the late 19th century, one out of every three cowboys was a Mexican vaquero, and 20% may have been African-American."

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

dbn7 TIL the hit show “To Catch A Predator” was cancelled in 2008 because an assistant to the Texas DA office shot himself after he was caught talking to and exchanging pictures with a decoy posing as a 13 year old boy.
BrAYL TIL: GDP (PPP) per capita, the United States is the 15th richest country in the world
7rYjM TIL that the Vikings were the first Europeans in North America landing in modern-day Newfoundland in Canada, beating Christopher Columbus by 500 years.
v1x5K TIL that physicist Wallace Sabine was assigned the impossible task of fixing the sound quality of a poorly designed lecture hall. Despite having no background in acoustics, he discovered a relationship between chamber size, absorption surface and sound quality. Thus founding the field of acoustics.
M7Wb TIL that all of the top 10 most powerful computers in the world all run on a Linux operating system.