› added 10 months ago

35

TIL “Maroons” were descendants of escaped slaves who formed their own communities.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

BrnBD TIL The earliest advanced society in Europe wrote both written word and hieroglyphs which have still never been deciphered
M7PDW TIL Game of Thrones became the most pirated TV show in history, with the season 7 finale streamed or downloaded over 1 billion times. By season 8, illegal viewership doubled legal numbers with 55M downloads for the premiere. HBO eventually embraced the piracy buzz, calling it a “free-to-play” model.
KY9Na TIL an albatross can fly for up to 6 years without landing and travel for 49,000 miles (more than 2 times around the Earth).
nevK7 TIL Cantonese is considered to be a conservative dialect, its sound system having preserved the final consonants and tones of the Tang Dynasty literary standard.
6EJAw TIL that real dead bodies were to be used on the set of 'Apocalypse Now' to provide authenticity; their supplier, who also provided supplies to medical schools for autopsies, was a grave robber