› added 6 years ago

181

TIL of US Army master sergeant Roy Benavidez. During the Vietnam War, he fought 1000 NVA soldiers for 6 hours with only a knife while saving the lives of his comrades. He was so badly injured he was presumed dead and when a doctor was about to zip his body bag, he spat in the doctor's face.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

5BE9 TIL Oklahoma passed California last year as the most seismically active state in the continental U.S.
BgOmK TIL that congress authorized the guards of the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetary to abandon their post due to hurricane Sandy. They refused and continued their duty.
d8odd TIL a study conducted between 2007 & 2017 found that young adults are having less casual sex, mainly because they're drinking less, but also because of an increase in gaming, & more of them having to live with their parents.
R5raj TIL in 1961, a cow in Cuba was killed by a satellite fragment falling out of the sky. This is the only documented satellite-crashing-to-Earth fatality
rRrnW TIL the Ice cream truck jingle has a name: The Turkey and the Straw