› added 10 years ago

211

TIL that Africa’s true size isn’t shown on standard maps and it’s larger than China, West Europe, and the US combined

Read more io9.com

via reddit.com

96op TIL 8 of the top 10 cities with highest unemployment rates in America are in California.
x6PZ5 TIL many of London’s streets were paved with wood
rRgG0 TIL King Richard Lionheart had more than two thousand Muslim prisoners of war from the captured city of Acre beheaded in front of the Ayyubid armies of sultan Saladin on 20 August 1191.
lv5A TIL “lb” is descended from the Roman libra (hence the abbreviation “lb”); the name pound is a Germanic adaptation of the Latin phrase libra pondo, ‘a pound by weight’. And that’s why “pound” is abbreviated as “lb”.
WkMQ9 TIL redheads are more sensitive to pain because of a mutation in a gene that affects hair color and require, on average, about 20 percent more general anesthesia than people with dark hair or blond coloring.