› added 5 years ago

513

TIL The first baseball hats were made of straw. They were first worn by the New York Knickerbockers on April 24, 1849. But within a few years the team began to wear a cap made of fine merino wool. It featured a crown, with an attached visor or bill.

Read more heddels.com

via reddit.com

BgnNk TIL that in the 2020 Supreme Court case McGirt v. Oklahoma, it was ruled that roughly half of the state of Oklahoma, including most of the city of Tulsa, is legally an Indian Reservation. This is because the original 19th-century reservation was never officially disestablished by Congress.
ROWj TIL of Lala the king penguin who lived in Japan with a couple in their apartment. He would walk to a local fish market by himself every day wearing a penguin backpack getting free fish.
ANArn TIL of United Passions (2015), a movie financed by FIFA for $29 million as a fluff piece to make themselves look good. But due to being released right around the time of the FIFA Corruption Scandal, the movie only earned $918 at the opening weekend.
nW89d TIL the scheduled, 1.7-mile flight between Westray and Papa Westray in Scotland is only 2 minutes, but it can be as short 47 seconds depending on wind conditions
8aRJP TIL in 1951 Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz carried out an agrarian reform under which uncultivated portions of large land-holdings were expropriated in return for compensation and redistributed to poverty-stricken agricultural laborers. The US disliked this and the CIA engineered a coup d'etat