› added 1 month ago

13

TIL Poodles used to be bred for hunting and working

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

dDeOB TIL Napoleon Bonaparte suffered from severe gastrointestinal issues. Which is why in the portraits he is holding his stomach .
Z8yXp TIL about the "Battle of Hayes Pond", where in 1958, fed up with recent cross burnings on their grounds, over 500 armed members of the Lumbee Tribe surrounded a KKK rally and exchanged fire with them, destroying the only light source and forcing the Klan members to flee the area.
JY8L4 TIL the quote "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize" is often misattributed to Voltaire, when it is actually from Kevin Alfred Strom, a convicted pedophile and Holocaust denier
l7OBA TIL That a large undigested lump of chewing gum in your stomach is called a "Bezoar"
5VMAD TIL a species of monkey known as the Lesula was discovered in 2007 (though already known by locals). It has a brilliantly blue bottom.