› added 8 years ago

154

TIL that the Samoan crisis was a naval standoff between the German empire and the USA that ended when a cyclone swept through and sank both fleets.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

kPyB TIL that until 1986 you didn’t even need to buy property in Alaska. You could build a house and it would have been yours…
Aykg TIL in 1945, Army photography David Conover saw a young woman on the Radioplane assembly line whom he thought had potential as a model. He photographed her working on the OQ-3 model, which led to a screen test for the woman, who soon changed her name to Marilyn Monroe.
R8ja TIL that we are still in the ice age that began 2.6 million years ago at the start of the Pleistocene epoch, because the Greenland, Arctic, and Antarctic ice sheets still exist.
e0ov5 TIL the card game wasn't originally the main focus of the manga Yu-Gi-Oh, it started as one plot device among others in an action shonen about tabletop gaming in general. This changed after it garnered enormous interest among readers
nNYd TIL David Lunt was shot through the skull and brain by a revolver and not only lived after the shot, but also felt no pain from it. He died 67 days later and his autopsy revealed that the gunshot was what killed him. Coroners still don’t know how Lunt survived for so long and felt no pain.