› added 10 years ago

136

TIL Hugh Trenchard, a British soldier in the Boer War, was shot in the chest and spine, becoming partially paralyzed. He took up bobsledding as a hobby, and after a major accident regained use of his legs.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

d81E7 TIL : In Japan, to get a drivers license you have to complete a first aid training course, which also includes CPR.
R7WA8 TIL that in 1985, the mayors of Carthage and Rome met to formally end the 3rd Punic War after 2,131 years.
4k45o TIL that René Auberjonois, known for Boston Legal, Benson, and Star Trek, opted to avail himself of CA's medical aid in dying act after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
r89d TIL in the 90s the CIA tried to discredit the US Ambassador to Guatemala after they bugged her room and heard her talking lovingly to a woman named Murphy, and accused her of having a lesbian affair with the woman to Washington. There was no affair she was talking to her poodle named Murphy.
0d40v TIL that after retiring from baseball Jackie Robinson became vice president of the coffee company Chock full o'Nuts. This made him the first Black vice president of a major American corporation.