› added 10 years ago

158

TIL Treadmills were invented to punish English criminals!

Read more physicalculturestudy.com

via reddit.com

DyKJ TIL: Elvis Presley requested to be made a DEA agent so that he could travel with drugs without any problems. President Nixon agreed to meet him and gave him a special badge.
WbbL TIL it’s illegal to “pursue, shoot, shoot at, poison, wound, kill, capture, trap, collect, molest or disturb” a bald eagle in the US
D1l9r TIL that author and radio host Amy Krouse Rosenthal publicly announced that she had ovarian cancer by writing a modern love essay for the NY Times that was a dating profile for her soon to be widower husband. She died 10 days after publication.
1oO4 TIL that right before the Cuba embargo took effect, President Kennedy had his secretary buy 1,2000 Cuban cigars
GAnDE TIL about Sunflower Syndrome. A poorly understood type of epilepsy, sufferers are drawn to seeking out and looking at bright light (including the sun). This results in a brief hand-waving gesture across the face, or eye-flickering seizure up to hundreds of times a day.