dDP8E TIL that Venezuela has one of the highest levels of European admixture in Latin America,about 61% ranking it just behind Argentina and Brazil.
KYaO9 TIL of Mozart's Piano Concerto 24. Composed in three weeks and without the full solo part written down, it is now considered Mozart's greatest ever piano concerto, and one of the greatest piano concertos of all time, with Beethoven remarking that "we shall never be able to do anything like that"
a8XwJ TIL about the 1977 Dutch train hijacking, which lasted 20 days and ended with 8 dead.
Zpn8Y TIL In 1985 Italy and Tunisia signed a symbolic peace treaty, 2,131 years after the Punic Wars ended.
789rZ TIL: John Boyd Dunlop the inventor of the first practical pneumatic tire, first created a tire for his son's tricycle ride; the resulting air-filled tire revolutionized transport.
kJEOe TIL that a fictional language, Wenja, was created for Far Cry Primal by a team of linguists after Ubisoft deemed the 6,000 year old Proto-Indo-European to be too modern for the game's prehistoric setting.
EgB1d TIL after the holidays, the Rockefeller Christmas tree is cut into lumber for Habitat for Humanity homes
Y74pP TIL about Michael Romanoff, a Los Angeles restaurant owner who claimed to be a member of the Romanov Russian royal family
Bglrx TIL on 28 February 1998, one day after recording the final episode of Father Ted, the show’s lead actor Dermot Morgan suffered a fatal heart attack while hosting a dinner party at his London home.
rNoRW TIL that Caesar's famous quote "The Die is Cast" was not actually original, but him quoting the play "Arrephoros" by the greek playright Menander.
NXo7M TIL that after John Lennon was shot in 1980, Yoko Ono asked the hospital to delay announcing his death because she did not want their 5-year-old son Sean to learn of his father's death from a TV announcement.
l7koB TIL when George Lucas first showed Carrie Fisher the metal bikini costume, she thought he was kidding & it made her very nervous cause it meant she'd be "nearly naked." She also said "I had to sit very straight because I couldn't have lines on my sides, like little creases. No creases were allowed".