› added 9 years ago

102

TIL In 1965, The World Health Organisation stopped calling Down Syndrome “mongoloids” due to a delegate from Mongolia

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

6E5PX TIL that flatworms reproduce by "penis fencing", where each worm attempts to stab the other with their penis. They are hermaphrodites, so the loser is impregnated.
rRKWy TIL "Pall Mall" cigarettes are named after Pall Mall street in London, which is named for the game Pall Mall played on that street, which is named after the French game of "Jeu de mail", which is named after the Italian game of "pallamaglio", which means "ball mallet".
EgQex TIL that there is a profession called neonatal bereavement photography and they use water immersion to take the photographs.
BxQx TIL that if we sort known planets (including extrasolar) by standard primary habitability, Earth is only fifth
BgM7r TIL that a French Soldier called Albert Severin Roche, had personally captured 1,180 prisoners. He was called the "first soldier of France" by allied supreme commander Marechal Foch