› added 4 months ago

17

TIL casino mogul Steve Wynn gave up attending Yale Law School due to his father's gambling debt.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

mNPP TIL: NASA has made hundreds of thousands of technical reports covering technology, research, and science available through a free and searchable archive on the Internet.
lRyV TIL that Canadian solider Leo Major made so much noise during a battle in WW2 that he made the German army think that the entire Canadian army was invading
Me46a TIL that Harry Connick Jr’s father, Henry Connick, unseated New Orleans DA Jim Garrison. Garrison famously was the only DA to bring anyone to trial for JFK’s assassination and was the focus of Oliver Stone’s film JFK.
G8V7 TIL the snake from Britney Spears’s “I’m a Slave 4 U” VMAs performance is still alive and is a lot bigger now–roughly 100 pounds and nearly 15 feet today.
0WLj TIL Hawaiian singer, Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwoʻole, famous for his cover of “Somewhere Over The Rainbow”, was a supporter of Hawaiian rights. He used the ukulele to promote awareness of the second class status. After his death, his ashes were publicly scattered into the Pacific on July 12, 1997.