› added 8 months ago

22

TIL that Pulp Fiction magazines with weekly serialized stories, were the predecessors to modern Comics and Manga, starting as early as 1896

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

1oNV TIL there are 33,000+ PhD graduates receiving public aid in the United States.
j6Mpa TIL Chad Butler, aka the rapper Pimp C, studied classical music in school and received a Division I rating on a tenor solo at a UIL choir competition. His stepdad taught him to read music, influencing him to incorporate more musical instruments into his rap songs over the course of his career
9YwZr National Geographic explorer Helle Olsen explains why mandrills have such colourful bums.
W7RX4 TIL when George R.R. Martin was writing A Storm of Swords he skipped over the chapter with the Red Wedding in it & finished the rest of the book before making himself go back to write it. It was very hard & painful for him to kill off the characters in that scene that he'd lived with for so long.
4XvoR TIL about Nüshu, a woman-only Chinese script. Woman used it to write letters, poetry, and even autobiographies. Due to men being unable to read it, woman who knew Nüshu arguably had far more intellectual freedom.