› added 8 years ago

376

TIL a 61 y/o man fist fought a bear and won

Read more cbc.ca

via ift.tt

b95dZ TIL of Jack Ryan, who worked on designing medium range missiles for the Pentagon before joining Mattel and working on designing the initial Barbie doll and Hot Wheels cars
yQLAX TIL that Jeremy Renner broke both his arms during filming of the movie "Tag". CGI was used to replace Renner's arm casts in the final film.
BBjx TIL: that when the Mongol army was withering from the 14th century bubonic plague epidemic, they decided to catapult their infected corpses over city walls before invading. This is considered one of the first acts of biological warfare
VMwG4 TIL Popeye used to eat spinach because German chemist Wolf miscalculated the amount of iron(to 10x) in spinach
jGMn TIL that a gypsy boxer in Nazi Germany was threatened by the Nazis to throw his next match. He came into that match with his hair dyed blonde and with whiteface. He took blows for five rounds like he was asked before collapsing. The boxers name was Johann Trollmann