› added 11 years ago

77

TIL President Nixon once described Timothy Leary as “the most dangerous man in America”, simply because he was an advocate of psychedelic drugs.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

xwW1 TIL that Jeff Bezos’ parents put several hundred thousand dollars into Amazon.com to get it started.
aD1Z TIL when Paris Hilton was hosting SNL, cast members took bets at to whether or not she would ask anyone a personal question. Seth Meyers said yes and won when she asked if Maya Rudolph was Italian. As recounted by Tina Fey, who calls Hilton ‘a piece of shit’.
Wk8b8 TIL the flight crew of Delta 1141 joked around about what they would say on the cockpit voice recorder if they crashed. 2 Minutes later, they crashed, killing 14 passengers.
oR7nL TIL that a teen boy from the UK became legally blind while having a diet of potato chips and fries
1YGd TIL that Dan Bullock altered his birth certificate so that he could join the Marines in 1968. Six months later he became the youngest service member to die in combat in Vietnam. He was 15.