› added 9 years ago

116

TIL Lions inhabited many areas of Europe until they were hunted to extinction around 100 BCE.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

7rppX TIL that Hitler had a nephew, William Hitler, who served in the US Navy and wrote an article in a magazine titled 'Why I Hate My Uncle'.
1akW4 TIL: The first person to build a programmable humanoid robot was the Arab Muslim scholar Abu Alîzz Al-Jazari in 1206 AD
16XwP TIL in 1982 ecological activist Chaïm Nissim fired five RPG-7 rockets into the Superphénix nuclear reactor in France as protest of its construction. He was never caught, only revealing his involvement 21 years later, calling the attack "non-violent" and "quite beautiful".
neM7Y TIL Liam Neeson started acting because he thought the girl who would star next to him in his school plays was cute
xxx0 TIL The Museum of Endangered Sounds exists to allow streaming of once popular technological sounds. ie. the dial-up tone, ICQ chat tone, Windows 95 startup.