› added 4 years ago

52

TIL Shavarsh Karapetyan dove into freezing water to rescue passengers from a sunken trolleybus, caught pneumonia ending his career as an Olympic swimmer and then saved people from a burning building

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

OGQl7 TIL Pepsi lost a $1.26 billion judgement against Charles Joyce and James Voigt after they said the company had created Aquafina by stealing their idea to sell purified bottled water. This was then vacated after Pepsi lost the paperwork to the lawsuit.
5Yry8 TIL beaver is considered safe to eat during lent by the Catholic Church.
Ookk7 TIL Julius Caesar’s only son, Caesarion, was the last Pharaoh of Egypt. Even though Cleopatra swears he is Caesar’s son, Caesar never officially acknowledged him.
XXGk TIL of Bill Morgan, who after having a near death experience buys a lottery ticket winning a car. His local news then asked him to do a reenactment for them and scratch another ticket, on which he won $250,000.
b7e0 TIL Wikipedia user ‘Seedfeeder’ is responsible for 47 of Wikipedia’s sex drawings including deepthroat, snowballing and pegging