› added 6 years ago

152

TIL that in WW1 Germany protested America's use of the shotgun, as they believed to cause unnecessary suffering and a violation of the Law of War

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

BgpeL TIL that outlaw John Wesley Hardin was killed by John Selman. Selman was in turn killed by George Scarborough. Six years later, Scarborough was shot dead.
ManA TIL that during filming of Rocky, Sylvester Stallone suffered bruised ribs and Carl Weathers a broken nose, the opposite of what their characters in the film recieved
VMgQ8 TIL in 1962 Marilyn Monroe left most of her estate to her acting coach Lee Strasberg. When Strasberg died in 1982, his wife Anna, who had never known Monroe inherited her estate. In 1999 she auctioned off Monroe's personal belongings for $14 million.
R7jv8 TIL As a defensive measure Israel installed an underwater pipe system to pump flammable crude oil into the Suez Canal, thereby creating a sheet of flame. On the eve of the Yom Kippur War, teams of Egyptian frogmen blocked the underwater openings with concrete before launching their attack
7rmlM TIL that daith ear cartilage piercings can relieve some people of migraines by severing part of the vagus nerve