› added 11 years ago

97

TIL Samsung just launched the largest ship in the world. It is 12 times larger than the Titanic.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

oB7dE TIL Satirical news site 'The Onion' was almost "...Sued out of existence" in 1996 by Janet Jackson. The article that prompted the lawsuit? "Dying Boy Gets Wish: To Pork Janet Jackson."
neBv9 TIL In 2000, one of the worst peacetime submarines accidents ever took place off the coast of Russia. A huge explosion sank the giant nuclear-powered submarine Kursk, killing most of its crew and stranding nearly two dozen survivors hundreds of feet underwater.
bDXZ TIL English words for livestock (cow, sheep, chicken) are Germanic-based and the words for meats (beef, mutton, poultry) are French-based. This is because the people who raised the animals were Anglo-Saxon peasants and the people who ate them were Norman aristocrats.
BrkEy TIL Hawaiian Punch started off as an ice cream topping
nWDJW TIL: That the word "Eurovision" was first used as a telecommunications term in the United Kingdom in 1951, in reference to a programme by the BBC being relayed by Dutch television, and was subsequently used as the title for the union's new transmission network upon its creation in 1954.