› added 10 months ago

25

TIL in late 1870 there was a naval battle near Havanna between a French and a German ship. It was the only naval fight of the Franco-Prussian War.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

xVJEk TIL San Francisco had a bubonic plague epidemic in 1900-04, but the governor ignored medical experts and denied that it existed, because he feared its impact on businesses
XExOk TIL that Buffalo Wild Wings was founded by Jim Disbrow and Scott Lowery. Lowery's parents were both Disbrow's ice-skating coaches and guardians.
X0prk TIL in 1973, a Harvard astrophysicist suggested that we won't discover more advanced civilizations because they don't want us to find them and have the technology to ensure we never do. They have also set aside our planet as a zoo wherein they can observe us. He coined this idea the Zoo Hypothesis.
oRVPA TIL the oldest statute in the UK still in force was enacted in the year 1267 as part of the Statutes of Marlborough. The Law Commission is debating whether two of the four remaining statutes should be repealed.
Me66W TIL Robert De Niro is the only child of two well-regarded Greenwich Village painters, Virginia Admiral and Robert De Niro, Sr.