› added 10 months ago

58

TIL: Matt LeBlanc was in the offical music video for Bob Seger's Night Moves.

Read more youtu.be

via reddit.com

9YOxr TIL of Sam Patch, a man who successfully jumped from Niagara Falls, Passaic falls, and other high points before dying on a second jump over Genessee falls. Ironically, he advertised the event as "Sam's last jump" (intended as his last jump in that area; not as the last of his life).
AD9Dn TIL that bathroom hand dryers suck fecal bacteria from the room and sprays it directly on your hands.
KYlea TIL the US constitution protects both ritual animal sacrifice and sports coaches holding public prayer with players before a sports game. Theoretically, a coach could sacrifice a goat to Satan before every little league game, and the state could not lawfully intervene or stop them.
x68vg TIL in late 1870 there was a naval battle near Havanna between a French and a German ship. It was the only naval fight of the Franco-Prussian War.
4XXW5 TIL during the Cold War of 1950's; the Canadian Government forced some of the Inuit population to move into the Arctic Archipelago, just so they could make a claim a land claim on the islands.