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TIL King John of England deposited the crown jewels with the Knights Templar in London when he was in trouble before the Magna Carta. They were providing the world’s first international banking company.

by whatilearned July 4, 2022, 12:49 pm

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TIL King John of England deposited the crown jewels with the Knights Templar in London when he was in trouble before the Magna Carta. They were providing the world’s first financial-services company.

by whatilearned July 4, 2022, 12:08 pm

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Which actor playing an American character were you most surprised to learn is actually from England?

by QuestionGuy July 3, 2022, 10:52 pm

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TIL Christmas celebrations in England and America were illegal during parts of the 17th century. Puritans strongly condemned the celebration of Christmas, considering it a Catholic invention and the “trappings of popery” .

by whatilearned July 1, 2022, 4:18 pm

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TIL: Mercia was one of the three notable Anglic kingdoms founded after as Sub-Roman Britain was settled by Anglo-Saxons. It was centred around the River Trent and its tributaries, in a region now known as the Midlands of England.

by whatilearned July 1, 2022, 3:41 am

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TIL There is a sunken ship near the coast of England with roughly 1.500 tons of unexploded unstable explosives, that could go off by it self.

by whatilearned June 30, 2022, 4:52 pm

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TIL that Mushrooms have their own language. A professor at the University of the West of England found in his lab that the electrical signals of four species of fungi pulse in patterns that are similar in structure to human languages.

by whatilearned June 28, 2022, 12:05 am

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TIL that the Battle of Bannockburn was a victory of the army of King of Scots Robert the Bruce over the army of King Edward II of England in the First War of Scottish Independence. Although victory would not be secured until 14 years later, Bannockburn is still a major landmark in Scottish history.

by whatilearned June 23, 2022, 6:44 pm

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TIL Contrary to popular belief, the City of New York was not named directly after York in England, but for the Duke of York, who was later crowned as King James II. When England seized the area from the Dutch, he was appointed as its proprietor by his older brother, King Charles II.

by whatilearned June 21, 2022, 8:57 am

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TIL That Halley’s Comet was first depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry (The tapestry chronicling the Norman conquest of England) in 1066

by whatilearned June 16, 2022, 3:32 pm

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TIL about the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, an intertwined series of conflicts that took place between 1639 and 1653 in the Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland – separate kingdoms which had the same king, Charles I.

by whatilearned June 14, 2022, 6:36 pm

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TIL The US Civil War ended in Liverpool, England

by whatilearned June 9, 2022, 11:49 pm

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