› added 1 year ago

32

TIL written Japanese uses three different types of characters: hiragana (a syllabary), katana (ANOTHER syllabary), and kanji (Chinese characters).

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

QNNrk TIL one of the unifiers of Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, once built an entire castle in secret near a castle he had put under siege. After 80 days, he had the trees covering it cut down, making it seem like a castle had sprung up overnight. His enemies surrendered shortly thereafter.
GYd7 TIL Marie Curie’s notebooks from the late 19th century are still too radioactive to be handled
45lR TIL There are only roughly 23,000 African lions left. There were roughly 300,000 in 1998
9wVPp TIL that reading articles and news involving traumatic events can cause something caused vicarious trauma, which is like a form of PTSD but from second-hand experience.
KYDL9 TIL that the German equivalent of Renaissance Faires is "Indianer Camps". Germans meticulously re-create the Wild West and dress up as Native Americans and cowboys.