› added 4 years ago

268

TIL Margorie McCall lived once, buried twice. From my town

Read more lurganancestry.com

via reddit.com

XOER TIL that, in 1943, L. Ron Hubbard wrote a series of private letters about losing his command and various military blunders, and general good health. Later, he founded scientology and claimed heroics and injuries in the war.
1a80r TIL The Inventor of the frontal lobotomy won a Nobel Prize in medicine
jNBoE TIL that on December 16, 1965, NASA received a prank transmission from two astronauts: "We have an object, probably in polar orbit... I see a command Module and and eight smaller modules in front. The pilot of the command module is wearing a red suit." They then started playing, "Jingle Bells".
XE6d8 TIL that from The Munsters, the "Munster Koach" was a hot rod built on a lengthened 1926 Ford Model T chassis with a custom hearse body. It was 18 feet long and cost almost $20,000 to build. The "Drag-u-la" was the combination of an illegally acquired coffin and a Ford Hot Rod.
e0EyD TIL that in ancient Rome there was such a thing as bread fraud . Bread had to branded as a result so the government knew who to punish .