› added 11 years ago

70

TIL Weird Al Yankovic once recieved a telegram from Prince’s lawyers demanding to not even make eye contact with Prince.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

OXya TIL that the Nazi salute looked almost identical to what was, at the time, the salute to the American flag. The USA changed the salute in 1942 after the Nazis adopted it.
DQOEe TIL that Taylor Swift has an impact on the Canadian economy
WkKoo TIL that there is another kind of Panda that is brown and super rare. It’s a subspecies of the giant panda and only inhabits in Qinling Mountains of China.
QNRK9 TIL about Blockbusting, a practice in the 60s where real-estate companies would fake the threat of demographic shift to scare White homeowners into selling their property before selling it back to Black buyers for a marked up price.
M7x6m TIL that there exists a Peruvian political movement called Ethnocacerism, an ultranationalist indigenous movement that seeks to restore the borders of the Incan Empire. It was founded by the father of former Peruvian president Ollanta Humala.