› added 8 years ago

110

TIL Ulysses S. Grant’s administration was plagued with corruption and scandal due to nepotism, favoritism, and the unprecedented way he ran his cabinet resulting in Black Friday (1869) and Whiskey Ring (1875)

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

kOgDW TIL Police in Brazil on the island of Marajo ride water buffalo so they can go through swamp land and marsh to catch criminals
4k8Ja TIL Vanna White holds the title for “Televisions most frequent clapper”, clapping more than 600/episode and more than 3.7 MILLION a over her career!
ym7V TIL The Korean soccer player who scored and knocked Italy out of the 2002 World Cup immediately lost his contract with his Italian club Perugia for ‘ruining Italian soccer’.
v1eM8 TIL that there was a conspiracy theory that Jimi Hendrix faked his death and became Morgan Freeman
W7d44 TIL that the actress that did the voice of Anne-Marie in All Dogs Go To Heaven was shot in the head by her father shortly after her lines were recorded. She was 10. And it took Burt Reynolds (Charlie) 63 takes to record his lines after this (goodbye scene). I can’t stop crying.