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TIL: In 1877, George Cowan got shot in the head, crawled to make coffee at an old camp, crawled thru Yellowstone, crossed a river, got burned in a forest fire, had surgery to remove bullets, got thrown from a carriage before it rolled over a cliff, and while receiving care afterwards, his bed broke

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dDvk8 TIL the Free French general Henri Giraud resented the British so much, he refused to board the escape submarine HMS Seraph. Thus the submarine became USS Seraph, received an American co-captain, and the crew affected American accents.
Me9v8 TIL That Steak Tartare gets it's name from a 13th century myth that Mongols (called Tartars at the time) would ride with meat under their saddles to tenderize it, then eat it raw. Though the story was false and the chronicler who popularized it had never even encountered Mongols himself.
VMwE8 TIL Every year in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, there's a two-week long mock medieval war that draws so many participants, it has its own mayor and post office for the weeks it is active
9YwaB TIL" George Washington allegedly said before his death that he "would never set foot on English soil again," so when they erected a statue of him in London, they put US soil under the statue to honor that claim
EgoEw TIL about Lotus Isle. Once called Oregon's most surreal amusement park, a number of unfortunate happenings led to the park’s early downfall. An 11-year old boy drowned just before the opening season ended in 1930 and the next day, the President, Edwin Platt, committed suicide. More in the comments.