› added 4 years ago

85

TIL that in WW2, destroyer crews loved to rescue downed pilots, because the reward for returning them to their carrier was 10 gallons (38 liters) of ice cream.

Read more oldnfo.org

via reddit.com

b9Qm7 TIL that Jet Tila made the world's largest stir fry.
XEM8P TIL of Adolf Topperwein, an exhibition shooter who in a 10 day period in 1907, shot 72,500 flying wooden blocks, missing only 9. His longest run without a miss: 14,500.
loQGA TIL that in 1967, Don King was convicted of second degree murder for stomping to death an employee, Sam Garrett, who owed him $600.
ANwK7 TIL the planet Mercury has a comet-like tail 15-million miles (24 million kms) long. The tail is made of sodium atoms blasted off of the surface of the planet by the Sun and small meteorite impacts. The tail is very faint, invisible to the naked eye.
XyAE TIL During WWII, L Ron Hubbard once led a 68 hour battle against two Japanese submarines which he claimed “definitely sunk, beyond doubt”. An analysis later concluded that there were never any submarines in the area.