› added 6 years ago

69

TIL Swiss people are usually subtitled in German TV, because their accent is so thick it is virtually unintelligible by speakers of Standard German. Swiss on the other hand have no issue understanding Standard German.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

JYKZB TIL "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer won a Grammy Award in 1991... for Best R&B Song
D1BjV TIL The world's oldest known creature was a 507-year-old mollusk, that lived from 1499 until the day scientists found and killed it by mistake.
4kOAJ TIL that the weight of cremated human adult remains is, on average, around 3.5% of the body weight of the deceased person.
1a6x7 TIL North and South Korea aren't unusual for the Korean Peninsula. From 698–926 CE, the Peninsula was divided into a Northern State (Balhae) and Southern State (Silla)
d8xMB TIL that, barred from working by the Nazis as a Jewish actor, Leon Reuss tricked them into celebrating him as an Aryan idol by adjusting his dialect to that of mountain farmers, growing his beard, bleaching his hair by bathing every 10 days in diluted hydrogen peroxide, & claiming to be a peasant.