› added 5 years ago

126

TIL German secondary education streams kids into 5 different types of schools

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

vjgL TIL Most scholars accept the story of Dhul-Qarnayn in the Quran is a reference to Alexander the Great
LQjyv Today I learned that Pronghorn aka the "American Antelope" is not an Antelope at all, but it's own species that is more closely related to the giraffe and the okapi than anything else!
nWXlP TIL that the UK Tax code has over 10 million words and is about 12 times the length of the Complete Works of Shakespeare (880,000 words) or nine times the length of all the Harry Potter books combined (1.1 million words).
w977 TIL ticks are not insects but arachnids with 8 legs and are evolutionary related to mites.
WWDX TIL the word Britain is derived from Pretain meaning “painted” - originally because the Britons had tatoos.