› added 4 years ago

216

TIL of Lee Ellis, a Canadian man who evaded police to give water/food to pets left behind during the May 3, 2016 wildfire evacuation in Fort McMurray, Alberta. He and his buddy managed to help dozens of pets before getting forced to evacuate by police.

Read more cbc.ca

via reddit.com

yQpYX TIL Austrian inventor Erwin Perzy is considered as the inventor of snow globe who accidentally came up with the idea in 1900. His grandson Erwin Perzy III still runs the family business specializing in custom-made snow globes.
Y71MA TIL Jacques Lusseyran went blind at age 7. At age 14, alarmed by the Nazi's rise to power, he learned German to understand Hitlers speeches. At age 17 he was leader in the French resistance, and was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. He was among the 990 out of 2000 French prisoners to survive.
gMQe4 TIL I am a superhuman because I don't molest kids.
R50X4 TIL Leaches have been used to predict storms.
PLOn TIL that during the 16th century, Western Ireland was under the control of Pirate Gráinne Ní Mháille. After years of fighting against England, Queen Elizabeth agreed to personally meet with her. Gráinne showed up with a dagger, refused to bow, and threw a noblewoman’s handkerchief into a fire