› added 9 years ago

99

TIL: Frank Sinatra hated Rock and Roll “the most brutal, ugly, desperate vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.”

Read more thehoundblog.blogspot.com

via reddit.com

JYeG8 TIL that the photo of Hitler with a gunshot to his forehead is of his double, Gustav Weler. His body was burned outside his bunker along with his wife Eva Braun right after their suicide, and Soviets took the remains for autopsy after exhuming them.
R7VA6 TIL That in 1651 the Penderel brothers escorted young Prince Charles II from safe house to safe house after his defeat in the Battle of Worcester. Their descendents still receive £100 per year as a reward.
6E0rY TIL that Luxembourg, the Belgian province, is almost twice as big as Luxembourg the country
DQKOY TIL that sperm can work together in a sort of "sperm train" for faster collective movement
mxDOY TIL there are 14 Land Before Time movies spanning 28 years