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TIL Ancient Greeks did not consider "1" to be a number, and the idea of doing so would be controversial for centuries afterwards.

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e0YnD TIL The first native to greet the settlers at Plymouth colony not only spoke English, he boldly walked into their camp to say hello and ask if they had beer. His name was Samoset, and along with Squanto, he spent several years teaching the colonists to farm, hunt and survive in the New World.
BeMK TIL The 7-10 split is the third most difficult spare to pick up in bowling, not the first. The hardest spare to convert is the “Greek Church,” consisting of five remaining pins.
nebDb TIL West Point has a tradition of celebrating the student who came in last in class rank but still graduated, called the Goat. Including having each cadet give the Goat money.
Ko9a TIL the phrase to ‘blow a raspberry’ is derived from cockney rhyming slang in which you rhyme your desired word (fart) with another word that is used in a sensible phrase (raspberry tart), then use the non-rhyming word for the original word (raspberry=fart).
b6WyN TIL, in 1995, Brazil accidentally greeted the visiting german chancellor, Roman Herzog, with the anthem of east germany, 5 years after the reunification of germany