› added 9 years ago

68

TIL During a battle in WW1 an Ottoman Commander told his troops “I do not order you to fight, I order you to die. In the time which passes until we die, other troops and commanders can come forward and take our places”

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

emvg TIL: Brutus (the man who initiated the stabbing of Caesar) was a direct descendant of the man who assassinated the last Roman king.
kOyEm TIL of the 2003 Congo Air Disaster, when upwards of 200 people were sucked out of the plane to their deaths when the cargo door failed.
8eQEV TIL about Stephen King’s Dollar Babies, a program in which Stephen King sells the rights to some of his short stories for 1$ to film students to help their careers
jNe5n TIL that one of the most well known Presidents of the USA, Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt, was against putting "In God We Trust" on currency, saying it would "... cheapen such a motto by use on coins, postage stamps, or ads"
KrlJ TIL despite being worth an estimated $8.3 billion there is no public record of Steve Jobs giving money to charity. He declined to participate in the Giving Pledge founded by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates