› added 6 years ago

143

TIL A farmer once sued his neighbor for shooting and killing his dog for 150 dollars in damages. The Lawyer George Graham Vest took the case and in his closing argument gave a eulogy of sorts known as Vest "Eulogy on the Dog" which is memorable to this day.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

b9ELZ TIL Croissants are Austrian, not French
O996 TIL in the 80’s, Australian beer companies had to change the design of their bottles so a species of beetle would stop trying to mate with them
P1Pke Today I learned the oldest of Nick Cannon's 12 children is 12.
jNxYn TIL that the actor who played Immortan Joe - the main antagonist in Mad Max: Fury Road - also played Toecutter, the main antagonist in the original Mad Max movie.
4kLoX TIL of the less well known and earlier War in Vietnam (1945-1946), which was a military success.