› added 4 years ago

88

TIL the Maori in New Zealand had their own dogs, but they couldn't survive breeding with the european dogs so died out within 100 years of Captain cook's first voyage.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

rRXKM TIL Buttered Popcorn is the most popular jelly bean flavor in America
nWoo TIL Queen Victoria was prescribed cannabis for her menstrual cramps.
Z8egG TIL that the SOS distress signal was created because of its easiness in morse (· · · – – – · · ·). And not because it is an abbreviation of save our souls or save our ship
MEpa TIL - The Red Cross Recieved Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti Relief… ­and Built Six Homes
rdb4 TIL that when Marilyn Manson was asked what he would say to the students of Columbine, he replied, “I wouldn’t say a single word to them; I would listen to what they have to say, and that’s what no one did.”