› added 4 months ago

17

TIL the insult "suck eggs" originates from the full phrase "teaching grandmother to suck eggs," referring to a person giving advice to another person in a subject with which the other person is already familiar

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

LkbQQ TIL of Cathedral High School, a small school in El Paso, that was revoked of its Notre Dame Leprechaun logo after going unnoticed by the college for over 86 years.
xVmGb TIL Bulgaria was the only Axis power allowed to keep the territory it gained in World War II, permanently acquiring Southern Dobruja from Romania.
jNGOp TIL about Minik, one of several Greenland Inuits who were once part of a living exhibit at the American Natural History Museum. After Minik's father died of TB, his skeleton was put on display in the museum
5ln9 TIL if each atom of air you inhaled were a grain of sand, every breath you took would cover the entire United States to the depth of an eight-story building.
R5nva TIL The standardization of industrial farming has led to a 75% drop in crop genetic diversity.