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TIL There is a video of GH Bush being rescued by a submarine

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GY0Qg TIL that NFL QB Drew Bledsoe sheared a blood vessel from a hit. He most likely would have died but a team doctor caught it before he went home. The case is now taught to med students as a reason to not “jump to conclusions”. Bledsoe was replaced by a young QB named Tom Brady, his first game.
w0JM TIL Larry McElroy, while trying to shoot an armadillo with a 9mm pistol, had his bullet ricochet off the animal’s shell, hit a fence, go through the back door of his mother-in-law’s mobile home, pierce her recliner and finally hit her in the back.
OpDe TIL that during WWII, a Polish Catholic social worker named Irena Sendlerowa saved 2,500 Jewish children from death. That’s more than the 1,200 saved by Oscar Schindler. She was recognized by Yad Vashem in 1965 as one of the Righteous Among Nations (a non-Jew who saved Jews during the Holocaust).
P1Qve TIL that the judge from My Cousin Vinny was Herman Munster, Fred Gwynne.
1aAVD TIL that garlic powder should be rehydrated before being used, rather than being added directly to a meal