› added 8 years ago

393

TIL white people have their own history of slavery by the Ottoman empire up until the 19th century.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

4XbV5 TIL that in the 2000 Presidential campaign Michael Moore got Alan Keyes, a Republican candidate, to join a mosh pit to Rage Against the Machine
OKl4 TIL of a condition called ‘dactylolysis spontanea’, where a person’s toe just randomly falls off, and doctors have no idea why it happens
69MoJ TIL Fernando Pessoa was a Portuguese poet who had multiple personalities and different biographies, for example, he would sometimes claim to be a man called Ricardo Reis born in the city of Porto (while the real Pessoa was born in Lisbon).
x67Zb TIL That after the news of the Dien Bien Phu's fall. The Archbishop of Paris ordered a mass, all entertainment activities are halted and radio performances are replaced with solemn music.
d8GMj TIL the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field image was made from a total exposure time of just under 1 million seconds and in order to observe the entire sky to the same sensitivity the telescope would need to observe continuously for a million years