Dinner used to be a mid-day meal, with supper eaten in the evening. Over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries, people ate dinner later and later. Eventually, it became so late it was now in the evening. Supper disappeared entirely and a new meal, lunch, was introduced to fill the gap between breakfast and dinner.
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Bhumibol Adulyadej, king of Thailand from 1946–2016, owned as many as 21 white elephants, the most of any king in Thai history.
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Aristotle believed that men had more teeth than women.
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The growth in India's population since the year 2000 is greater than the entirety of the United States population.
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According to legend, a Montana frontiersman named Liver-Eating Johnson killed, scalped, and ate the livers of 300 Crow Indians after one of them killed his wife.
The context to this is when an American navy seaman and micro-nationalist named Travis McHenry who “established” a micro nation in Antarctica (called Westarctica) through a supposed loophole in the Antarctic Treaty System. His micro nation became a problem when he started reaching out to foreign nations to recognize his claimed territory at which point his superiors demanded his abdication.
Transylvania University in Kentucky, despite having an active undergraduate population of about a thousand, has produced such alumni as Jefferson Davis, Cassius Clay, David Rice Atchinson, Stephen F. Austin, two vice presidents, two Supreme Court justices, over 150 congressmen, and over 30 governors.
32 cities in india named bag, 30 of them in himachal pradesh, all but one are under 1000 population and they all seem to be grouped together, almost as if they were on the same river of something
The oldest written complaint was in the Sumerian city of Ur. A customer named Nanni complains to merchant Ea-nāsir, complaining that the copper ingots he had received were "sub-standard", and the servant he sent to get them was "treated rudely."
According to the state constitution, anybody can walk into the Arkansas Treasury and demand to see the collected taxes (so as to make sure they haven't been stolen).
The 1830 census reported over 2,000 individual blacks as slave owners. And while it is true many of them were simply buying their families back, plenty were employing slave labor—one Louisianan widow who grew sugar cane owned 152.
In 1851, to thank the president for appointing him governor of Utah Territory, Brigham Young moved the territorial capital to Millard, located in Fillmore County.
In 2009, the British government falsely reported that the engineering firm Taylor and Sons had gone bankrupt (though they really meant Taylor and Son). Ironically, partners stopped doing business with the firm once the news got out, which led to them actually going bankrupt—though they eventually sued the government for compensation.
Andrew Johnson's son-in-law was a Senator during his impeachment trial. He voted for acquittal, helping to push Johnson into the one-vote majority he needed.
I have a theory about why Aristotle thought men had more teeth than women, since at first that sounds absurd. I read somewhere that men are more likely to develop wisdom teeth than women, so speaking in general, that would technically mean men have more teeth women on average. Perhaps he observed or recorded someone else's observation that in general men do have more teeth than women
In Prince George's County, MD (pop. 946 thousand), only 0.068% of the population lives in the county seat of upper marlsboro (pop. about 600), which is likely the lowest of any county in the US
In Tamil Nadu State in India, there are districts with an HDI (Human Development Index) higher than Switzerland (most developed country) and Districts with an HDI lower than South Sudan (least developed country)
The iconic ‘Blue Marble’ photo of the Earth was actually taken upside down and looked like this. The Blue Marble photo was only created when the original image was cropped and flipped to reflect north on the top.
Yes I watched the recent Map Men video, why’d you ask?
The West Side Baptist Church in Nebraska exploded in 1950 due to a gas leak. Usually, a choir would’ve been practicing in the church when the explosion happened.
However, no one was injured as all 15 members of the choir were miraculously late, all due to different reasons. Some of the reasons included: car troubles, completing unfinished homework, oversleeping, wanting to iron a dress and waiting to listen to the end of a radio show.
And I don't believe it's fact worthy, but in the 1990 Louisiana Senate election, the only Republican candidate was former Grand Wizard David Duke. He got 43.5% of the general vote.
The meals being called "breakfast, dinner, supper," is still the case in a lot of the rural southeast of the United States. I'm not sure why they claim the word supper is no longer used. There are still plenty of people who find it abnormal to use the word lunch.
The one in Iran.
Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?
Xinglong,
Xilin
Xiangyang
Xiaohe
Xinhua
respectively
Pur just means place in this context
In Alaska, although it is legal to shoot a bear, it is forbidden to wake it up to take a picture.
In the ancient Greek Olympics, athletes competed naked.
King Ismail of Morocco, who lived in the 18th century, is credited with 1,056 children.
“Not unmindful of my son, I give all of my estate, both real and personal, to my wife, Grace Coolidge, in fee simple.”
c'mon everyone lets make this a thread
Tuvalu GDP is around 26 million, right?
To match Elon Musks Money, which is around 187 billion,
you need to times it by 7,226, and its still a little bit less than elon musks money.
Keep in mind that only around 0.7 percent of the world have 1 million, and its only 1/26th of tuvalu GDP!
2. Every Irish country has 1-3 colours, however over five counties use white and blue and Ofally uses the Irish flag.
3. The shortened name of Burmingham is B’ham.
4. Switzerland didn’t join the United Nations until 2002.
5. The O’ in an Irish name means desendant of.
6. Lots of cars from Saint Lucia are directly imported from Japan in Japanese
7. Until 2023, Wikipedia used an incorrect Vatican City flag. That means Jetpunk also did!
8. The government of the Republic of Chad does not have a website
9. The Vatican city has three popes per square kilometer
10. New York has one person per capita
Yes I watched the recent Map Men video, why’d you ask?
However, no one was injured as all 15 members of the choir were miraculously late, all due to different reasons. Some of the reasons included: car troubles, completing unfinished homework, oversleeping, wanting to iron a dress and waiting to listen to the end of a radio show.