› added 10 years ago

72

TIL That Hawaiian pizza is Canadian

Read more m.wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

lo97K TIL African dodger (or Hit the Coon or Hit the N***** Baby) was a carnival game played in the US, in which an African-American man would stick his head through a curtain, and try to dodge objects, such as eggs or baseballs, thrown at him by players. It was played until the 1950s.
wjrW TIL that about Oberto Airaudi, who secretly dug a cave beneath his unassuming house, extracting 300,000 ft^3 of rock to house 7 intricate temples!
LQNl0 TIL that there is a German word for “Capitalism Heyday”, Hochkapitalismus, which is the period from 1800 to the First World War
GQx4 TIL: Albert Einstein solved the Tea Leaf paradox where tea leaves in a cup of tea migrate to the center and bottom of the cup after being stirred rather than being forced to the edges of the cup
X0gOE TIL Until 1922 you could go to jail for taking a foul ball