› added 2 years ago

144

TIL about the Index Thomisticus, a 34 year long project beginning in 1946 to make a machine readable concordance of the works of Thomas Aquinas, that required manually recording 10,631,980 Latin words onto punched cards and took a total of 1 million hours of human work to complete

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

x6exg TIL that on feb 8th 1914, the co-creator of Batman, Bill Finger was born
4k8KR TIL that women's football was banned in England from 1921 until 1971.
W7YNB TIL the Indian city of Vijayanagara was likely the second largest city in the world at the start of the 1500s, with an estimated 500,000 residents. Following a six-month siege, Vijayanagara was abandoned in 1565 and never rebuilt.
ADQVl TIL Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) never intended the apples he planted to be eaten whole. He intended for them to be made into hard apple cider.
oxw8 TIL that cursive handwriting has already been removed from the curricula of 41 states.