› added 10 years ago

178

TIL Jack Daniels broke his toe kicking his safe because he forgot the combination. He later died from an infection of that broken toe.

Read more businessinsider.com

via reddit.com

XZ06 TIL Neil Flynn, who played Janitor on Scrubs, would improvise in the role so often that once the screenplay said ‘Janitor: Whatever Neil says’
nW8MY TIL, that at the age of 91 as of 2024, President of Cameroon Paul Biya is currently the oldest incumbent head of state.
VBBbQ TIL one of the first uses of biological agents for murder was in Calcutta, 1933, when Benoyendra Pandey secretly injected Plague into his brother on a train station over a property dispute. He had a previously failed attempt using Tetanus laced spectacles
vAv8 TIL During the filming of the climactic flood scene in Noah’s Ark (1928), the great volume of water used was so overwhelming (600,000 gallons) that three extras drowned, one was so badly injured that his leg needed to be amputated, and a number suffered broken limbs and other serious injuries
n6rb TIL the oldest tree ever to be discovered(5,000 years old) was killed by a man who was trying to discover it’s age.