› added 6 months ago

21

TIL Tampa Bay Lightning was owned by the Yakuza in its early years, constanly short on cash, and the NHL even doubted that owner Takashi Okubo, was a real person

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

9xxD TIL The first Canadian casualties in Afghanistan after 9/11 were caused by an American F-16 dropping a bomb on a Canadian military exercise.
R5xg8 TIL on James Cameron's 3rd dive to the Titanic, he & his pilot had "a near-death experience". They encountered a sandstorm on the ocean floor & became temporarily stuck there with low power supply & few batteries. It took them 3 attempts from the bottom to rise above 25 meters & surface 5 hrs later.
8DwL TIL that a Johns Hopkins professor procured 34 gallons of whiskey during prohibition for his research. He observed that subjects got better at throwing darts as they got drunker.
jNpKv TIL Bill Murray did his own version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which was called Where the Buffalo Roam in 1980.
wDvY TIL a person tries to jump off the George Washington Bridge every 3.5 days, and NYPD officers routinely talk people out of it.