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TIL that Christopher Columbus’s signature is written in a combinaison of Greek and Latin script, whose exact meaning has not been decyphered yet. People have used the signature to “prove” that he was Greek, Portuguese, Jewish…

by whatilearned June 30, 2022, 4:30 pm

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TIL one of the most mad Roman emperors wasn’t actually called ‘Caligula’. It was a nickname given to him as a kid by his father’s soldiers, while being on campaign with them in Germania. The name means ‘little boots’ in Latin and is a reference to the child-sized military gear he would wear

by whatilearned June 23, 2022, 3:15 pm

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TIL about “The Open Veins of Latin America,” a seminal historical analysis on resource exploitation since the Conquistadors, and how precious metal mining for bullets and aircraft feeds the Northern hemisphere’s depletion of resources and people from the Rio Grande to the Amazon

by whatilearned June 23, 2022, 4:21 am

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TIL the word “salad” comes from Latin “herba salata” (“salted herb”) because vegetables were seasoned with brine or salty oil-and-vinegar dressings during Roman times.

by whatilearned June 3, 2022, 1:09 pm

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TIL of Palenquero, a Spanish-based creole spoken in the Colombian town of San Basilio de Palenque that mixes Spanish with Kikongo, a language spoken in the Congo region of Africa. It is the last Spanish-based creole language of its kind in Latin America.

by whatilearned May 28, 2022, 10:18 pm

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Between the 7th and 16th centuries, anonymous pilgrims and other travellers left behind traces of their presence throughout the eastern Mediterranean region, where the walls of sacred sites are emblazoned with thousands of Latin inscriptions

by HistoryBuff May 10, 2022, 9:12 pm

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TIL The Japanese sports equipment company ASICS is an acronym for “anima sana in corpore sano” Latin for “sound body, sound mind”

by whatilearned April 13, 2022, 9:33 pm

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TIL William Pitt the Younger was 13 when he was admitted to the University of Cambridge, 24 when he was appointed Prime Minister and was also fluent in Latin and Greek

by whatilearned April 13, 2022, 12:42 am

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TIL Carthage in Phoenician means “New City”. Cartagena (Spain) in Latin means “New Carthage”. Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) was named ‘de Indias’ as it was named after Cartagena (Spain)—it can be interpreted as “New Cartagena”. Therefore the city can basically be read as “New New New City”

by whatilearned April 12, 2022, 6:27 pm

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TIL the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden probably wasn’t an apple. Scholar Jerome translated the original Hebrew “peri” (fruit) into Latin “malus”, which is a pun on the Latin word for bad. Apples weren’t indigenous to the Levant.

by whatilearned April 5, 2022, 7:14 pm

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Demons of Reddit, how do you feel when you accidentally get summoned in Latin class and is there any awkwardness?

by QuestionGuy April 3, 2022, 11:45 am

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TIL about the Index Thomisticus, a 34 year long project beginning in 1946 to make a machine readable concordance of the works of Thomas Aquinas, that required manually recording 10,631,980 Latin words onto punched cards and took a total of 1 million hours of human work to complete

by whatilearned March 30, 2022, 11:54 pm

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