› added 2 years ago

77

TIL That during WW2, President of China Chiang Kai-Shek had to be kidnapped by two of his generals to a negotiating table with the Chinese Communist Party rebels to negotiate a ceasefire that would let him make preparations for the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

7rljX TIL In April 2011, Jackie Chan said he would donate his entire fortune to charity and that his son would have to make his own way in life. "If he is capable, he can make his own money. If he is not, then he will just be wasting my money," he said.
6Eegl TIL that part of the reason Neil Armstrong was given the honor of first man on the Moon was that he was more humble than the egotistical Buzz Aldrin
YpKwZ TIL Loudest sounds
epdP5 TIL That ‘Petty Theft’ is commonly spelled ‘Petit Theft’
jyMN TIL that the tree of knowledge in Judeo-Christian Religion was an apple tree possibly because of a pun. (Malum means bad in Latin, while malūm means apple)