› added 2 years ago

114

TIL that Hans Christian Andersen wrote The Little Mermaid at the same time a man he was in love with became engaged to a woman, and he was overcome with sorrow

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

ZPRG TIL that archaeologists have found the remains of what appears to be a family group of 12 Neanderthals in Spain who were killed, butchered, and cannibalized by other humans about 42 000 years ago.
X6jP TIL German writer Ernst Jünger ran away at the age of 18, served both WW1 and WW2, earned the iron cross, hung out with Picasso and Cocteau, hated the nazis and did lots of drugs until he died 102 years old.
0wPyj TIL a small war was fought between the 3 original settlements that would become Milwaukee. Even today the bridges downtown are crooked because each settlement refused to acknowledge the street layout of the settlements on the other side of the river.
6aDl TIL that amongst the crowns, swords and sceptres the oldest British ‘crown jewel’ is a spoon, the Coronation spoon to be precise.
jNgMn TIL the Philippines was assigned on the eastern side of the International Date Line, making it one day behind its Asian neighbors until 1844.