› added 7 years ago

50

TIL the last native speaker of Scottish Norse died in 1850, and fragments survived until at least the 1890s

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

VmxG TIL in order to save 140 tonnes of carbon annually in reduced transportation, British supermarket Sainsbury’s shrunk the inner cardboard tube of all their toilet rolls by 11mm.
W7J7o TIL that 4th, 5th, and 6th degree burns exist.
x6pl5 TIL Warwick Davis is younger than Peter Dinklage
Yn7v TIL a Federal Agent started making arrests in a Missouri town with a meth problem. He had some success but after a few months it emerged that he was not a Federal Agent but was actually an unemployed security guard.
xwOb TIL that the Republic of Nepal has given no names to its seven provinces, only serial numbers.