› added 9 years ago

263

TIL in the Afghanistan War, a British Corporal ordered a bayonet charge against Taliban forces. It was successful.

Read more businessinsider.com

via reddit.com

8rxV TIL to save time for workers constructing the new World Trade Center, a Subway restaurant pod was put on hydraulic legs next to tower cranes so that it could be moved up the building as it was built.
XE7P TIL That Stephen King, does not remember ever writing the book “Cujo”
y1pv TIL In 1953, an Anglican priest founded the Samaritans, the world’s first crisis suicide hotline. He was inspired to do so years previously after serving the funeral of a 14 year old girl who committed suicide because she had begun to menstruate & feared that she had a sexually transmitted disease.
XOQj TIL the British tabloid The Sun heavily criticized Prime Minister Gordon Brown for misspelling the name of a deceased soldier in a letter of condolence to his mother. Brown apologized, and The Sun soon had to post an apology of its own for similarly misspelling the soldier’s name.
epBnL TIL A US Navy red cell kidnapped a civilian security officer as an exercise and proceeded to torture and beat him in a hotel room. The officer's wife nearly shot the members of the red cell, but the officer told her it was an exercise rather than a real kidnapping.