Zp6gD TIL Pakistani School Textbook Rejects Theory Of Evolution By Charles Darwin.
78XJP TIL In 1938, the House Un-American Activities Committee named several celebrities who had sent greetings to a communist-owned French newspaper, including Shirley Temple, who was 10 at the time.
kJKWB TIL Thomas Guy was an investor in the South Sea company, widely considered the first financial bubble in modern history. He pulled out early in 1720, which saw his fortune quadrupling the following year. He spend most of his earning funding public hospitals which are still operational today
EgaJP TIL that rabies can make men hypersexual. One Austrian doctor said, regarding his patient, that “Semen et animam simul efflavit: His seed and his life were lost at the same time.”
Y75yB TIL in 2023 a Canadian court ruled that a thumbs up emoji 👍 carried enough weight to establish a legally binding contract between two parties
BgkJd TIL Braille actually comes in various languages (English, Germany, French + 130 more)
rNve1 TIL that Hawaii has not one but 9 designated official snails one for each island (and northwestern cluster of atolls)
NXDAe TIL that Tettyo Saito is the first Japanese writer to write and publish in the Romanian language. However, Saito has never been to Romania; he reached fluency with the language partly through Romanian films and friend requesting 4000 Romanians on Facebook.
l7dR7 TIL Helen Keller was one of the co-founders of American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and met 13 US presidents in her lifetime.
8eVJa TIL Tom and Jerry were originally named Jasper and Jinx. There was later a contest to name them. Animator John Carr won $50 (more than $800 in today's cash) for coming up with the names Tom and Jerry. They were named after a cocktail.
P1yJE TIL that in anticipation for architect I.M Pei’s 1964 master plan for Downtown Oklahoma City, OK, 447 buildings were demolished to clear land for the project. By the mid 1970s little of the plan was implemented & in 1988 the master plan was officially abandoned.
epYEJ TIL When Vince McMahon was in charge of the WWE, the word 'wrestling' and other variations of it were banned. Wrestlers weren't allowed to say these words on TV.