› added 11 years ago

80

TIL: According to the federal census of 1830, free blacks owned more than 10,000 slaves in Louisiana, Maryland, South Carolina, and Virginia.

Read more highlyspecialised.blogspot.com

via reddit.com

ZpGZB TIL about the speed-duration relationship across the animal kingdom. According to Dr. Mark Burnley's research, humans rank as fairly average competitors overall. For middle-distance, the gold goes to the painted ghost crab, while lizards dominate in ultimate endurance.
dDL5d TIL that since 1935, A Christmas Carol has been remade and adapted over 60 times.
6rkJ TIL an Indian man was fraudulently declared dead by his uncle. He fought with the Indian government for nineteen years to prove that he is alive.
R7aY1 TIL of No Kum-Sok, a North Korean pilot who defected to South Korea by flying his MiG-15 near-supersonic across the border. After nearly crashing into an F-86 while landing, he taxied, parked his plane, exited and began tearing a picture of Kim Il-Sung.
LkZgP TIL that while Tupperware was invented by Earl Tupper, the Tupperware party was the idea of super saleswoman Brownie Wise