› added 7 years ago

147

TIL that the small town of LaRue, OH is the smallest town to ever have a professional American Football team. The Oorang Indians were an all Native American team coached by Jim Thorpe and were also one of the first teams to incorporate a half-time show.

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

ADX8B TIL the world's longest place name is a hill located in New Zealand that translates to "the place where Tamatea, the man who had big knees, the climber of mountains, the slider, the land-swallower that traveled about, played the nose flute that he had to the loved ones." The name is in the comments.
Dk5g TIL - No more than 40 people live above 800 feet elevation in New York City. It’s an exclusive privilege for the super rich.
wgnY TIL Another cockroach superpower: they need less than one photon per second to see in the dark, and scientists don’t know why.
wLwv1 TIL that despite Disney’s 2012 purchase of Lucasfilm and the film rights to future Star Wars films, 20th Century Fox owns Episodes I-III, V, and VI until May 2020, and Episode IV forever since it co-produced and financed the film
69gel TIL Parmesan cheese is technically only parmesan if it comes from one of 5 specific parts of Italy.