› added 8 years ago

550

TIL that Ulysses S. Grant was arrested while serving as President. He was charged, booked, and later released after paying a fine for speeding. On a horse.

Read more history.com

via ift.tt

bOV9 TIL that Mount Everest is completely blanketed in 3G network coverage and has been since 2010. All the way to the summit.
LM4r TIL There are TWO actors who have been killed by a Predator, an Alien and a Terminator : Lance Henriksen AND Bill Paxton
VdO0 TIL the last emperor of china, Puyi, became emperor at 2 then, shortly after, china became a republic. Puyi like many other Chinese emperors stayed separated from the rest of China in the forbidden city. No one told Puyi he was no longer emperor until his mid teenage years.
d8xwE TIL that a Japanese woman asked for divorce because husband didn't like the movie Frozen
Ypr7d TIL orchids are named after the greek word for testes (orchis) due to the shape of their tubers