› added 2 months ago

20

TIL of Rampjaar (or the Disaster Year), which refers to the year 1672 in Dutch history. Things went so badly that year that it is generally described with this saying "The people were irrational; the government desperate; and the country irretrievable"

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

epOe6 Today I learned “babe I’m gonna leave you”, one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite bands, Led Zeppelin, was actually a folk song written by Anne Bredon in 1959. Her version sounded quite a bit different but still.
OGJDR TIL Harambe was 17 years old and had not reached breeding maturity when he was shot.
1aLvP TIL a rat broke into an ATM machine and ate/destroyed over $17,500 (USD) of cash.
yv0w TIL that the southern white rhino once had a population of 50 and now they number greater than 11,000 (unfortunately, conservation success does not always occur)
WkwYo TIL A penguin species that lived around 37m years ago was nearly 7 foot tall