› added 10 months ago

46

TIL Cavalry (horses) and Calvary (site of crucifixion) are different word with distinct meanings

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

jN5VR TIL that despite making $475 million at the box office, Return of the Jedi still has yet to make a profit thanks to Hollywood accounting practices.
b6Yd0 TIL more than 100 Greenlandic inuit women have reported getting birth control involuntarily
4k48a TIL that fuzzy ants are actually wasps, but are still called ants.
Vdbk TIL Draco, an Athenian law-maker in 620 BC, was smothered to death by gifts of cloaks and hats showered upon him by appreciative citizens
LQN59 TIL that particles in cosmic rays can cause the bits in your computer's RAM to flip states and we have redundant bits to stop this very phenomenon from occurring