› added 1 year ago

50

TIL that King's School, Canterbury, is Britain's oldest public school; and is arguably the oldest continuously operating school in the world, since education on the Abbey and Cathedral grounds has been uninterrupted since AD 597.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

R7AQ1 TIL when someone gets fired in New Zealand, they get to bring an "emotional support person" to the meeting. In 2019, one man brought an "emotional support clown" instead...and he stayed for the whole meeting making balloon animals.
X0rG6 TIL that a sea slug species steal chloroplasts from the algea it has eaten and uses them for photosynthesis.
EgGd TIL that 48% of black women are infected with genital herpes
1aQNO TIL that the collapse of the Soviet Union directly correlated with the resurgence of Cuba’s amazing coral reef. Without Russian supplied synthetic fertilizers and ag practices, Cubans were forced to depend on organic farming. This led to less chemical runoff in the oceans.
16M7W TIL Pink's hit "Get the Party Started" was written by 4 Non Blondes's Linda Perry, and Pink said in 2017 "You'd have to ask Linda Perry if it's about ecstasy. I don't know what she meant with it. I still don't know if it's 'I'm coming out...' Or 'I'm coming up...' I don't even know what I sang."