› added 9 years ago

67

TIL capital letters were stored in the upper tray for typefaces. This is why they’re called uppercase.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

Z8Nnv TIL the Agongointo-Zoungoudo Underground Town in Benin was rediscovered in 1998 when an unsuspecting bulldozer toppled into one of the caverns. Dating back to the early 17th century reign of King Dakodonou, the town consists of over 17 acres of underground homes built to shelter warriors.
yQB5e TIL In 1915, Kulbir Thapa was the first Nepalese Gurkha to receive the Victoria Cross. Thapa carried two wounded Gurkhas through No-Man’s-Land despite being wounded himself. When he went back a third time, German soldiers stopped firing and began clapping, allowing him to walk back to his own line.
a1KN TIL that in 2000, a meat department at a Walmart in Texas became the first store to unionize. Within two weeks Walmart eliminated all meat department positions and switched to pre-packaged meats.
nWBQG TIL that there are crystals that suddenly cannot be recreated, having been replaced globally by more stable forms via global contamination of microscopic seed crystals
p8Adb TIL Studies have shown that babies begin to cry silently in the womb at as early as 28 weeks, the findings where stumbled upon while researching the effects of tobacco and cocaine on pregnancy for another purpose.