› added 5 months ago

38

TIL Jimmy Carter is the only living president to have won Texas as a democrat

Read more uselectionatlas.org

via reddit.com

OwQg TIL more than 130 years after Darwin suggested that a large moth pollinated an African orchid, his 1862 hypothesis was confirmed. Darwin had postulated the existence of an otherwise unknown species of insect based purely on the size of the flower and his understanding of evolution and ecology.
7r7wX TIL French and Italian share 89% lexical similarity, this means a native Italian without any knowledge of French can understand 89% of the words they read in French and vice versa.
r5po TIL that in 2011, a 75 year-old woman accidentally cut the fiber optic cable that provides internet to 90% of Armenia.
eoyJ TIL trains were invented before bicycles
76Wb TIL that a 645-foot deep Kansas salt mine is used to store valuable items including many film negatives, such as “Gone With the Wind,” “Ben Hur,” “Star Wars,” “MAS*H” and “Journey to the Center of the Earth.”