› added 1 year ago

55

TIL during WWI Momčilo Gavrić at the age of 8 lost his entire family to a heinous war crime, he then enlisted in a nearby artillery unit and identified the location of the enemy soldiers that killed his family, then participated in the bombardment that wiped out that entire enemy unit

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

R9Y8 TIL that in South Korea, baseball has cheerleaders
9Yvbm TIL a fertility doctor used his own sperm to father 48 children.
E1Bmo TIL: There is a Victorian time capsule under Cleopatra's Needle in London that contains photographs of the 12 best looking women in England
R7ko6 TIL An Ohio judge once sentenced a woman to sit in the "stinkiest, smelliest" area of a garbage dump for 8 hours, as punishment for neglecting her dog. "If you puke, you puke."
R7Blw TIL In the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) the ship Cotopaxi was discovered in the Gobi desert, presumably left there by Aliens. At that time the ship was believed to have been lost in the Bermuda Triangle in 1925, but was discovered in 1985 in Florida, and not verified until 2020.