› added 2 years ago

63

TIL Thanks to an obscure canonical law Earth's Moon has an assigned Catholic bishop.

Read more wytv.com

via reddit.com

KY904 TIL Quentin Roosevelt, son of President Theodore Roosevelt, was a pilot who was killed in combat in WW1. For propaganda purposes, Germany made a postcard of the dead pilot and his plane, However, this was met with shock by Germans, who were impressed that a president's son died on active duty.
5YXQR TIL of the song written across a subject's bum in Hieronymous Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights, which the academic Amelia Hamrick transcribed and dubbed as "The 500-Year Old Butt Song from Hell"
xV1rw TIL that the American Sign Language for “pasteurized milk” is the sign for “milk” while moving your hand past your eyes
j5ka TIL that in 1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a maximum income of $25,000, equivalent to roughly $350,000 today.
PYePE TIL of the most rigged election ever (Liberian election in 1927). The winner received 243,000 votes despite the total number of registered voters was fewer than 15,000.