› added 6 years ago

135

TIL a Corned Beef Sandwich was smuggled onto Apollo 16, resulting a review of the incident by Congress.

Read more space.com

via reddit.com

X0pGR TIL that’s Kangaroo testicles were stuffed with grass and used as a football by indigenous Australians and the game bore quite the resemblance to Aussie Rules Football.
glrW TIL On September 11, 1987, Dan Rather, upset at the evening news being delayed by a U.S. Open tennis match, walked off the set and when the match was over CBS was left with nothing but dead air for six minutes
rNpRe TIL that Pule cheese is the most expensive cheese in the world, made from donkey milk and valued at around $600 per pound.
JR8B TIL That there’s an award winning documentary about “Mr. Hands” - The washington man who has sex with a horse. It was even debuted at Sundance Film Festival
GAp87 TIL during World War II, Newfoundland was still part of Great Britain and not Canada. In 1941 the U.S. built four military bases in Newfoundland which brought money, entertainment and U.S. products to the area. As a result, a 1947 poll said that 80% of Newfoundland wanted to become Americans.