› added 4 years ago

160

TIL 50% of American adults are incapable of reading a book written on an eighth-grade level.

Read more literacyprojectfoundation.org

via reddit.com

rXJM TIL 47 States have more strict regulations for barbers than for tax preparers.
QJdx6 TIL that strait women are responsible for over a third of all male gay porn views
Ooj9e TIL Hitler commissioned special "Wound Badges of 20 July 1944" to those who were wounded in the failed assassination attempt with him as per the Resistance's Operation Valkyrie. Only 24 people were awarded such medals.
N7vJ1 TIL "Marcha Real" the national anthem of Spain.It is one of only four national anthems(along with those of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and San Marino) that has no official lyrics.Though the Marcha Real has no lyrics, words have been written and used for it in the past.
9YVpr TIL first editon of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone” in USA got changed into “Sorcerer’s Stone” instead. Because a scholastic thought that "Philosopher" sounded too archaic for Americans, Rowling later said that she regretted this change