› added 5 years ago

249

TIL that da Vinci painted 2 Mona Lisas. The older one was hidden in a vault until 2012.

Read more artdependence.com

via reddit.com

p85XQ TIL despite ancient Rome being one of the most powerful empires and using many modern financial techniques some of which are still being used today, Rome was a mainly agrarian economy with arelatively small GDP
P1nPw TIL that King James VI of Scotland and I of England (1566–1625) enjoyed the company of handsome young men, shared his bed with his favourites and was often passionate in his expressions of love for them. He railed fiercely against sodomy.
b9k5Z TIL that contrary to the previously held belief that cockroaches only developed a resistance to one class of pesticide after exposure, coakroaches can actually develop a “cross resistance” to multiple types of pesticide simultaneously
grKky TIL about the invariant right theory. This is the theory that most people will turn to their right when entering a store. It is theorized that people unconsciously favor turning right because most people are right handed.
neoa9 TIL For every mile traveled, motorcyclists have a risk of a fatal accident that is 35 times higher than a car driver.