› added 9 years ago

540

TIL: Lacoste’s signature crocodile was the first designer logo in history. Also, he invented the tennis polo shirt & split-shaft steel racket.

Read more gq.com

via reddit.com

e0Zk TIL According to University of California, the world’s servers processed 9.87 Zettabytes of information in a single year. That’s 10,000,000,000,000,000 GigaBytes!
xMWo TIL that in 1970, there were half as many people in the world as there are now.
N7noJ TIL that the first known cat with a name was called Nedjem meaning sweet' orpleasant' and dates from the reign of Thutmose III (1479-1425 BC)
XRdD TIL A Canadian who flew a Spitfire in WWII kept his Military history secret for 56 years because a fire destroyed his log books and uniforms.
b96m4 And why does it go in your arm instead of your butt?