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TIL of Mocha Dick, a male sperm whale that lived in the Pacific Ocean in the early 19th century, and usually encountered in the waters near Mocha Island, off the central coast of Chile. American explorer and author Jeremiah N. Reynolds published his account which inspired Melville’s Moby Dick

by whatilearned August 24, 2022, 10:30 pm

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A good Internet Explorer joke. [Long]

by cringeyjokesman August 16, 2022, 4:58 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 Ibn Battuta was a Moroccan explorer who travelled extensively across Africa and Asia between 1325 and 1354. He travelled more than any other explorer in pre-modern history, from present-day Mali and Tanzania to Beijing – approximately five times the distance covered by Marco Polo.

by whatilearned July 13, 2022, 12:23 pm

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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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