› added 7 years ago

129

TIL The USA is one of the last countries that hasn’t combined Boy and Girl Scouts.

Read more freep.com

via ift.tt

epWYn TIL that an octopus has 3 hearts and blue blood
ADZEa TIL American WWII pilot Charlie Brown was struggling to keep his damaged bomber airborne in the skies over Germany in 1943 when Luftwaffe ace Hanz Stigler flew alongside. Instead of firing due to how much damage the bomber had taken as he thought it would be dishonorable, Stigler gave a salute.
8VeV TIL that the movie “Psycho” is the first American film to show a toilet on screen. It’s also the first American film in which we hear a toilet being flushed.
4XPEw TIL: The story that Newton was hit on the head by an apple is almost certainly apocryphal. All Newton himself ever said was that the idea of gravity came to him as he sat in a contemplative mood, and was occasioned by the fall of an apple.
Lkb8d TIL That Pokemon was inspired by the capsule monsters in Ultraseven