› added 1 year ago

77

TIL to end the Gulf War, the USAAF dropped howitzers on bunkers from supersonic fighters.

Read more globalsecurity.org

via reddit.com

XQ9E TIL a man was arrested and convicted of being a homosexual after witnesses caught him drinking Baileys Irish Cream.
9YXXr TIL that blue jays go bald in last August after seeing a bald lil dude eating out of my bird feeder (they only shed their head and neck feathers)
GAnr1 TIL Leonardo's painting, Mona Lisa, is one of the most important art objects on Earth, but it's not insured.
D1x7P TIL that Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux of said that “Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.”
5YkQn TIL in the 1950s Rebecca Webb Carranza owned a tortilla factory that sometimes made misshappen tortillas. Instead of throwing them out she cut them into triangles, fried them, and sold bags of them in the Mexican Deli. She's credited for introducing tortilla chip into modern food culture.