› added 1 year ago

60

TIL of the Liverpool Packet, a Canadian privateer vessel that captured 50 American ships during The War of 1812. She was captured by US forces, before then being recaptured by The British.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

JvyV TIL that the Finnish language has a unit of measurement based on a reindeers urinary habits. Poronkusema
16AY8 TIL Al Matthews, who starred as Sergeant Apone in James Cameron’s ‘Aliens,’ was the inspiration for Sergeant Avery Johnson of the Halo video games
yVkev TIL that Skandar Keynes, who played Edmund in The Chronicles of Narnia, is the great-great-great grandson of Charles Darwin.
x79g TIL that when the mathematician George Dantzig was studying in Berkeley, he solved two open problems in statistical theory which he had mistaken for homework after arriving late to a lecture
78kDp TIL In 2016, teen entrepreneur Taylor Rosenthal rejected a $30M offer for his ''high school project startup'', selling first-aid vending machines. However, it was later exposed as a scam orchestrated by Kyle Sandler, who conned $1.9M from Opelika investors with fabricated deals and press releases