› added 5 years ago

138

TIL GEICO is an acronym

Read more vault.com

via reddit.com

OoKwX TIL The day Malcolm X was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom, a dance was previously scheduled for 7p. The dance was allowed to happen as scheduled with the bullets still in the wall, completely compromising the crime scene.
6EQkW TIL In 1710, famous author Jonathan Swift wrote an article on "the continual Corruption of our English Tongue" in which he described the word "bamboozle" as one of the words that were in his opinion, "corroding, if not destroying, the English language"
ZOED TIL that in South Africa,2009, an employee of an IT company complained that data would get transferred faster by carrier pigeon than on ASDL. Winston the pigeon armed with 4gb memory stick took two hours to carry the data 60 miles - in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data.
9YJPX TIL of Senioritis - a term used to describe decrease in motivation for students in senior year of high school, college, or grad school.
v1YK8 TIL that native English speakers are never taught the correct way to order adjectives: they just know it