› added 1 month ago

6

TIL Cotton Eye Joe is a Swedish song, not American

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

75ZX TIL that Prince Andrew, Duke of York served as a Royal Navy helicopter pilot for two decades. The UK government wanted to prevent him from serving in combat during the 1982 Falklands War, but his mother Queen Elizabeth insisted that Andrew fight. The Duke served in anti-missile decoy, ASW, and SAR.
RYma TIL : When Queen Elizabeth visited the set of “Game of Thrones” she refused to sit on the Iron Throne because there is a law disallowing her from sitting on a foreign throne.
N7OwQ TIL Part of the Falklands Islands is littered with leftover landmines from the Falklands War. This stretch of beach has become home to hundreds of penguins as they are too light to trigger the mines when walking on them.
9drQ TIL Abraham Lincoln was reported to be “fond of dumb animals, especially cats.”
ydaw TIL Swiss men are still allowed to present a bayonet – a sword that has generally passed down from generation to generation - as voter identification. This used to be the only form of voting identification for Swiss men up until 1991.