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TIL about the classical period of witch hunts in early modern europe and colonial america took place around 1450 to 1750.Modern scholarly estimates place the total number of executions for witchcraft in the 300-year period of European witch-hunts in the five digits b/w 35000 to 50000

by whatilearned September 5, 2022, 4:44 pm

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What parts/states of America should be avoided during a cross country road trip as a European?

by QuestionGuy September 3, 2022, 11:26 am

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TIL that the dress codes are symbolic indications of different social ideas. The history started from the 7th through the 9th centuries, the European royalty and nobility used a dress code to differentiate themselves from other people through ornamented garments, especially the collar.

by whatilearned August 30, 2022, 2:59 am

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In North America we’re meant to believe any product that is European etc is better/fancier than what is made here. Italian marble, Belgian chocolate, etc. What’s a product in Europe that’s made in the Americas that follows the same principle?

by QuestionGuy August 16, 2022, 11:17 pm

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TIL Some European cultures would purposely wall up a dead cat in their house to ward off evil spirits.

by whatilearned August 16, 2022, 5:49 pm

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TIL In Romance and other European languages, Hellas is named “Greece” after the Grecians, a Hellenic tribe which colonized southern Italy and interacted with the Romans, who used their name to refer to all Helenes.

by whatilearned August 13, 2022, 5:24 am

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TIL about the zero Euro note, used as a souvenir banknote with authorized printing by the European Central Bank. The Georgian ones features Stalin.

by whatilearned August 10, 2022, 10:36 pm

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TIL about sir Richard Burton, an English explorer and writer who: travelled to Mecca in disguise, translated the One Thousand and One Nights (unexpurgated), the Kama Sutra and The Perfumed Garden (the “Arab Kama Sutra”) in English, and was the first European to visit the Great Lakes of Africa

by whatilearned August 4, 2022, 7:29 am

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TIL that Louis IX of France, also known as Saint Louis, was viewed as “primus inter pares” (first among equals) among the kings and rulers of Europe as he commanded the largest army and ruled the largest and wealthiest kingdom, the centre of European art and intellectual thought at the time.

by whatilearned August 2, 2022, 3:49 pm

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You are forced to live in an Western European country with a middle-income & happy family. What do you do?

by QuestionGuy July 24, 2022, 4:30 pm

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TIL the UK was the number 1 European recipient of aid from the Marshall Plan, receiving $2.7 billion

by whatilearned July 22, 2022, 1:32 am

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TIL that European trucks are rarely sold in the US was due to a 25% retaliatory tariff (aka the “Chicken Tax”) on European trucks, which was put into place after European countries got together and imposed tariffs on imported chickens from the US.

by whatilearned July 20, 2022, 6:29 pm

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