TIL that an American pilot was decorated with one of Germany’s highest medals for dropping miniature parachutes with candy during Berlin Airlift
TIL that the phrase “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all”. Is now known as “Thumper’s rule” or “Thumper’s law” after the character in Bambi.
TIL annually Paris experiences nearly 20 cases of mental break downs from visiting Japanese tourists, whom cannot reconcile the disparity between the Japanese popular image of Paris and the reality of Paris.
TIL that the original and proper term actually is ‘duck tape’, as it was made for use by US GIs in WWII, who named it duck tape for its waterproofing abilities