Yule ≠ Christmas Yule is one of the oldest winter solstice festivals, with origins among the ancient Norse thousands of years ago. Although today it’s heavily associated with, and even confused with, Christmas, the celebration existed long before Christianity. 🧵⬇️

New Jersey is the number one producer of eggplant in the United States. It produces 26 million pounds of eggplant every year, and is sometimes called “the eggplant capital of the world.” Don’t make us use the emoji.

(solemnly) You've had mail.

Hawaiian pizza was first created in Canada by a Greek immigrant named Sam Panopoulos in 1962. And you read this from a company called 'Britannica' that is headquartered in Chicago. What a trip.

1000000000000066600000000000001 is a prime number…it is also a palindrome. It’s called ‘Belphegor's prime.’ ‘Belphegor’ refers to one of the Seven Princes of Hell (due to the ‘666’ in the middle & the 13 zeroes on either side). So that’s cute.

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

The first 3 letters of 'Sweden' and 'Denmark' spell out 'Sweden.' The remaining letters spell out 'Denmark.'