› added 5 years ago

55

TIL that US soldiers in Vietnam saw 6x more combat than US soldiers in previous wars, because helicopter deliveries drastically cut downtime spent waiting for supplies

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

epdV4 TIL about the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largely unknown naval battle which was the largest of World War II and by some criteria, the largest naval battle in history.
jAbM TIL Chris Rock snuck a 15 yo make a wish kid a copy of Pamela Anderson’s sex tape [@12:33]
yVrBe TIL Philadelphia Cream Cheese is produced in New York, and always has been since it was invented by William Lawrence in 1872. He named his company Philadelphia to market off of the city's reputation for high quality dairy products.
doQQ TIL In the 13th century there was a Russian boy named Onfim whose child drawings preserved up to today.
OY0L TIL the clitoris has no other purpose than for pleasure, it has over eight-hundred nerve endings