› added 1 year ago

61

TIL of mondegreens, a mishearing of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning. The national anthem of the U.S. is highly susceptible to the creation of mondegreens, as "O say can you see" has been misinterpreted as "José, can you see", and "by the dawn's early light" as "by the donzerly light"

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

9W7B TIL; Porcupines forage in trees but are bad climbers “in one study of porcupine skeletons in museums, 35 percent had healed fractures consistent with falling”
5lXn TIL typefaces (fonts) are not protected by copyright in the United States as they are considered to be “utilitarian objects whose utility outweighs any merit that may exist in protecting their creative elements.”
m1ddR TIL in 1995, a man was convicted by a court in France for the murder of a teenage girl. However, he fleeing to Germany. In 2009, the father of the victim organized a team to abduct the killer from Germany and deliver him to a French courthouse, where he was finally sentenced to 15 years in prison.
LQ709 TIL Georgian has a vigesimal (20-based) number system
b6Q6N TIL That a plane accidentally crashed into the Empire State Building in 1945