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TIL George H.W. Bush was named “Skin Man of the Year” by pork-rind manufacturers after he expressed a fondness for the snack in 1988 that led to a spike in sales

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jNJdj TIL President Herbert Hoover and First Lady Lou Henry Hoover were both fluent in Chinese and would speak it to each other in the White House to prevent eavesdropping.
6EW7W TIL During a Geneva summit in 1985 President Ronald Reagan and the Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to pause the cold war and set differences aside in the case of an Alien Invasion
wGBJ TIL a Hungarian man was shot in the frontal lobe during World War 1, making it impossible for him to fall asleep. He continued to live a full, sleepless life.
b9rDE TIL the band Cannibal Corpse appeared in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective because Jim Carrey was a fan and wanted them. They declined at first because of a tour but agreed after production rearranged their schedule to accommodate them and when they met Jim "he rattled off lyrics to 'Rancid Amputation'."
wLQr7 TIL a Texas man nearly died after being bitten by a rattlesnake that he decapitated with a shovel. The snake's head bit down on his hand, 10 minutes after being removed from its body, after he reached down to move it with a stick.