› added 3 years ago

135

TIL Alex McLeish, Ex-Rangers Football Club Manager, was told by his son whom was an ardent player of the football managing simulator ‘Football manager’ to sign a player from Barcelona B. Alex McLeish ignored the advice and claimed, ‘We’ll never hear about him again’. The player was Lionel Messi.

Read more theguardian.com

via reddit.com

JYrK8 TIL Alexandre Dumas was only one-fourth black, from his paternal grandmother. His other three grandparents were white.
wLBmo TIL in pre-20th century European culture, red hair was commonly identified as the distinguishing negative Jewish trait. During the Spanish Inquisition, all those with red hair were identified as Jewish; and writers from Shakespeare to Dickens would identify Jewish characters by giving them red hair
Dl6P TIL: Floyd Thompson was the longest held prisoner of war in US history, spending nearly nine years in captivity in Vietnam. When he returned, his wife was living with another man and of his 3 children, only his eldest child barely remembered him. Within 4 years of rescuing, he attempted suicide.
LkjEr TIL that Facebook has more users than the population of the U.S., China, and Brazil combined.
Yr0B TIL James Earl Jones used to use Darth Vader as a CB radio handle while traveling cross country and spoke in character. “The truck drivers would really freak out — for them, it was Darth Vader. I had to stop doing that.”