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TIL the terms Latino/Latina came from the French word Amérique Latine. Coined by Napoleon III, it was used in an effort to imply cultural kinship to Mexico and justify French intervention as well as to combat the ever growing Anglo-Saxon presence in America.

by whatilearned June 27, 2022, 3:19 am

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TIL that Seals mega-hit ‘Kiss From a Rose’ originally debuted in The Neverending Story III before it was released in 1995 for the Batman Forever movie.

by whatilearned June 24, 2022, 9:24 pm

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TIL Andre 3000 will on occasion assume an alias when producing music, one of these names being Dookieblossumgame III.

by whatilearned June 13, 2022, 7:36 pm

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TIL Henry III received a polar bear as a gift from King Haakon of Norway in 1252. The bear lived at the Tower of London and was given a long leash so it could swim in the river Thames and catch fish.

by whatilearned June 3, 2022, 10:49 pm

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TIL that the saying “I’ll sleep when I’m dead.” may have first been said by the hero Gilgamesh. This conversation with the god Shamesh is from the Epic of Gilgamesh, captured on clay tablets 4000 years ago in the world’s oldest written story. Jump down to the beginning of Part III

by whatilearned May 26, 2022, 4:18 pm

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TIL Dr. James Parkinson, whose study of ‘The Shaking Palsy’ resulted in it being named after him, narrowly avoided being dispatched to Australia in irons after being accused of plotting to shoot King George III with a poisoned dart

by whatilearned May 24, 2022, 7:27 pm

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TIL Into the 19th century Paris was characterized by tight winding streets and small thin buildings that Voltaire said were suitable for Goths. Under Napoleon III the city had massive renovations that widened the streets and created large apartment buildings.

by whatilearned May 14, 2022, 11:21 am

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TIL to study health effects of coffee, King Gustav III of Sweden forced identical twin prisoners to drink 3 pots of either coffee or tea a day for life. The tea-drinking twin died before the coffee-drinking twin. The king and attending doctors died before both.

by whatilearned May 11, 2022, 1:24 am

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TIL that Nicholas Cage’s uncle is Francis Ford Coppola and he denied Cage a role in The Godfather Part III

by whatilearned May 5, 2022, 5:44 pm

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TIL that Pope Nicholas III Orsini created a botanical garden in Vatican City that has been maintained for over 700 years.

by whatilearned April 19, 2022, 1:29 am

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TIL, that Lieutenant Elmo Zumwalt III contracted cancer and died at 42, after getting exposed to Agent Orange while deployed in Vietnam. It was his father, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt who ordered the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam.

by whatilearned April 1, 2022, 5:46 pm

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TIL St. Patrick’s day originally was celebrated with blue. George III needed to create a new order of chivalry for the kingdom of Ireland and needed a color for it. The Order of the Garter for the previous Kingdom of England already used a dark blue, so a lighter blue was used. It changed in ~1800.

by whatilearned March 18, 2022, 1:08 am

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