› added 2 years ago

89

TIL that Xanadu is an alternative name for Shangdu, the summer capital of Kublai khan and the yuan dynasty in general. The name Xanadu itself and its meaning as a metaphor for a place of opulence was popularized by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his poem about Kublai khan.

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

5RwR TIL that Saving Private Ryan was so realistic that it triggered PTSD in WW2 veterans
8aOnZ TIL Arborglyph is the carving of shapes and symbols into the bark of living trees. Derived from arbor ‘tree’; glyphein ‘to carve’. It was also mentioned in Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’; the love-frenzied Orlando declares he will carve every tree in the Forest of Arden.
KORDB TIL the lifespan of the Hindu deity Brahma is believed to last 311.04 trillion years
mM7Y TIL that the whole reason we focus on presidents’ first 100 days in office so much is because of how much FDR accomplished during his.
W7oa8 TIL about the Sand Creek Battle that occurred on November 1864 when a 675 man force of the Third Colorado Cavalry attacked and destroyed a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho people in southeastern Colorado Territory killing and mutilating an estimated 69 to over 600 Native American people.