› added 7 years ago

182

Today I learned the "Tanks" got their name because the British during WW1 were trying to keep the new weapons a secret and hid them in crates marked "tanks", telling people that they were just water tanks that were being delivered.

Read more zippyfacts.com

via reddit.com

JQgB TIL the inventor of the pool noodle never patented the idea and was later cut out by the company he worked with to manufacture it. That company now makes 70% of the world’s pool noodles.
XAEr TIL that the Germans have a word for a device that does everything: “Eierlegende Wollmilchsau” - It literally means “Egg laying wool milk pig”.
loNXa TIL: There is a specific term for a young woman's first period... Menarche.
XXvj TIL That on April 1st 2014, NPR posted an article saying “Why doesn’t America read anymore?” The content of the article explained the joke, but they still received a massive influx of comments by people who clearly didn’t read the article
QJ0ga TIL So much cow intestines were used in the production of German zeppelins that sausages were banned