› added 1 year ago

43

TIL that Sting and Stewart Copeland physically came to blows during the recording of Every Breath You Take

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

Bgrxy TIL that Germany's two largest private emergency responders, the "Malteser" and the "Johanniter", used to be the crusader knights' field doctors in Jerusalem
GkM1 TIL in 1970, Hunter S. Thompson ran for sheriff of Aspen against an conservative, ex-military Republican incumbent. Thompson shaved his head totally bald, so he could refer to the competing party, who was sporting a close-cropped crewcut, as ‘my longhaired opponent’ in speeches and interviews.
d8WNQ TIL a single Chilean Flamingo named "Pink Floyd" escaped a Utah aviary and lived a solitary life at the Great Salt Lake for 18 years, eating brine shrimp and socializing with gulls and swans. Locals unsuccessfully petitioned to have other flamingos released in the area to keep Floyd company.
4Xar6 TIL that, during the 1813–1814 Malta plague epidemic, concealing infection and moving between districts were made capital offenses
e04Gg TIL Pakistan plans to build an amusement park on the land formerly occupied by Osama bin Laden's compound