› added 7 years ago

177

TIL the 12 days of Christmas actually start with Christmas Day instead of leading up to it

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

vPyJx TIL Founder's Hall, a $4 million museum devoted to telling the story of Canada’s birth, located blocks away from the site of the 1864 Charlottetown Conference, shut down due to lack of interest. Visitors dropped from 40,000 a year in 2001 to 13,000 in 2015
Wkk89 TIL the Vatican City has the highest per capita wine consumption of any country in the world.
pYGYp TIL "Clyde" the orangutan in Clint Eastwood's film "Every Which Way But Loose" was frequently beaten by his trainer and died of a cerebral hemorrhage near the end of filming for the sequel
nP5r TIL : In 1985 a pool party was thrown for Lifeguards in celebration of a year without drowning, at that party a man drowned.
R5KR6 TIL Yucatan in the 1840s gained it's independence from Mexico and tried to get annexed by the United States. The bill to do so passed in the House, but failed in the Senate. By the end of the decade, Yucatan rejoined Mexico.