› added 10 years ago

258

TIL the Royal Navy executed an admiral for not trying hard enough, despite being brave and loyal. This inspired Voltaire’s quip “it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, in order to encourage the others”.

Read more historytoday.com

via reddit.com

W77KA TIL between the time he murdered his wife and son and the time he killed himself, pro wrestler Chris Benoit attempted to reschedule his flight from Atlanta to Texas so he could perform at that weekend's WWE pay-per-view, where he was scheduled to face CM Punk for the ECW Championship.
KY9mw TIL that while Gina DeJesus was held captive for years in Ariel Castro's house, her father unknowingly interacted with Castro, even sharing beers and conversations in his garden, never realizing his daughter was imprisoned mere feet away.
ADaoa TIL from 1986 to 2007, Russian cosmonauts carried a triple-barrelled Soviet pistol called the TP-82 on space missions. It was intended as a survival aid to be used after landings and before recovery in the Siberian wilderness and against wildlife, namely bears and wolves.
7rnRp TIL although Danny Devito and his wife Rhea Perlman played neglectful and abusive parents in Matlida, they looked over Mara Wilson during the filming of the movie when her mom was diagnosed with breast cancer.
KY849 TIL The Ancient Roman legions issued dog tags to legionnaires like modern militaries do