› added 4 years ago

51

TIL there have been at least 5 different Battles of Thermopylae aside from the one famously fought between the Greeks and Persians (popularized by "300") in 480 BC. The most recent of these battles was between the ANZACs and the Wermacht in 1941.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

R70Q1 TIL that when it was revealed to Hermann Göring that his prized Vermeer painting was a forgery, it was said "[Göring] looked as if for the first time he had discovered there was evil in the world".
9wZnM TIL that dogs' noses are like human fingerprints; each one is unique.
AnJo TIL “Milky” Way comes from goddess Hera’s breast milk. When Hercales was born, Zeus wanted him to have godlike qualities so he let him suck Hera’s milk (his wife) when she was sleeping. When she woke, she pushed him off, and spilled milk all over the sky.
6EEVw TIL Muon Tomography used to find a new chamber in the Gaza Pyramid was also used by Toshiba and the US Los Alamos Nat. Lab. to assess the situation inside the damaged reactors at Fukushima Daiichi
Yp6jW TIL The Internet was not created by Boomers, it was created in the 1960s by a professor named Leonard Kleinrock who was born in the middle of the Great Depression in 1934.