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TIL America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer who set forth the then revolutionary concept that the lands that Christopher Columbus sailed to in 1492 were part of a separate continent.

by whatilearned June 30, 2022, 6:31 am

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What do Dora The Explorer and Jack The Ripper have incommon

by cringeyjokesman June 27, 2022, 1:57 pm

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TIL That an ancient Greek explorer named Pytheas of Massalia traveled from Greece to the arctic circle in the 4th century BC

by whatilearned June 10, 2022, 4:02 pm

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TIL that the great Spanish explorer Magellan died in the Philippines in 1521 by miscalculation and was left to his own until the natives overwhelm him. It is probable that a random warrior wounded his leg, incapacitating him. Before, the known killer of Magellan was Lapu-Lapu, a local chieftain.

by whatilearned May 4, 2022, 11:10 pm

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TIL that naming of North & South America continent in honour of Amerigo Vespucci was a result of an mistake by a German cartographer while making a map of world in 1507 who thought Vespucci rather than Columbus was the explorer who discovered America after reading a document called Mundus Novus.

by whatilearned April 29, 2022, 12:01 pm

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TIL that French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier discovered Bouvet Island in 1739 but then mislabelled the coordinates, causing it to be lost until it’s rediscovery 8 decades later in 1808.

by whatilearned April 16, 2022, 12:04 am

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TIL the Solomon Islands were named as such because the explorer who discovered them thought they were the mythical land of Ophir, mentioned in the Bible as where King Solomon acquired his gold

by whatilearned March 31, 2022, 12:11 am

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TIL about the Mandan, or “Welsh Indians.” A tribe of Native Americans with a European appearance and a language that sounded like Welsh, they were at first believed to have been the descendants of the legendary Welsh explorer, Prince Madoc, who was said to have sailed to America in the 1170s.

by whatilearned March 23, 2022, 1:50 pm

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TIL: A 104-year-old British biscuit that explorer Ernest Shackleton gave to a starving companion sold at auction for £1,250. Years before, a biscuit from another Shackleton expedition sold for £7,637, even though just several crumbs remained.

by whatilearned March 12, 2022, 3:24 am

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TIL that polar explorer Ernest Shackleton is buried in Grytviken, a settlement on the island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic Sea. The settlement has a population of 3, but is only occupied in the summer.

by whatilearned March 9, 2022, 10:23 pm

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Hey guys, have to use internet explorer to post this but who all is storming area 51 tonight??

by QuestionGuy March 9, 2022, 12:20 pm

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TIL that the first person to reach the geographical North Pole may have been Matthew Henson, an African American who travelled with explorer Robert Peary on multiple trips to the Arctic

by whatilearned February 2, 2022, 9:39 pm

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