› added 10 years ago

68

TIL Former President, President for Life and then Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa of the Central African Republic ate the flesh of his political enemies.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

woEP TIL a good amount of Bermuda and the Caribbean islands’ land is “African dust”: soil particles that have flown clear across the Atlantic Ocean in dust storms
Np4J TIL that a blue whale is so large that its tongue weighs the same as an elephant and its heart weighs the same as a car.
mxg8v TIL According to a poll from 2019, Americans are among the most stressed-out people in the world.
GvG1 TIL Pamela Anderson is Canada’s “Centennial Baby”, having been the first baby born on July 1, 1967, the 100th anniversary of Canada’s official founding
0dwbN TIL Anna Jarvis, the creator of Mother’s Day, regretted it as the day grew more commercialized. She died broke from spending so much money on her fight to end the holiday.