Home
Random
Trending
Today
32
posts added
Search
› added
2 years ago
90
TIL a 747 is made up of 6,000,000 parts
Read more
beatlyzer.com
via
beatlyzer.com
LQdgr
TIL Chinese residents called their settlements as Tong Yan Gai, or Street of the Tong. This referred to how Cantonese people were brought into the Chinese Empire during the Tang dynasty
6EPKX
TIL that the first Christian marriage in what is now the US was between a white man and a black woman.
kOn75
TIL South African novelist Bessie Head was born of an illegal union between her white mother (who was placed in a mental asylum during her pregnancy) and black father (who then mysteriously disappeared). Her works reveal empathy with children and women treated as “dead things”
GYVNE
TIL that the city of Erbil in Iraq has a 'bulge' in the middle that has formed over the course of 6000 years as new buildings have been built over the remains of old ones
d8Yad
Today I learned birds do not sleep in their nests.