› added 10 months ago

30

TIL: When serving in the Illinois Militia, Abraham Lincoln went from Capitan to Private in one move.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

78L9Z TIL the Grand Mosque of Paris provided sanctuary to hundreds of Jews by hiding them within its complex, issuing them fake Muslim ID documents to help them escape detection by Nazis
b6lMp TIL That Jonah Hill has sworn the most out of any Hollywood actor with 376 curse words.
4XNER TIL that’s scientists created glow in the dark cats using jelly fish genes in order to research a cure for feline aids. The trait is even genetic and can be passed to subsequent generations.
jZOa TIL Americans now spend more money on slot machines than movies, baseball, and theme parks combined.
VQpZ TIL that on an 8x8 chessboard, there are 26,534,728,821,064 ways for a knight to visit every square once and end up back at the square it started from.