› added 12 years ago

90

TIL that Top Gun was such an effective advertisement for the Navy that the Navy had recruitment booths right there in theaters.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

78oRb TIL Puff Daddy was a background dancer before he became a music mogul. He's a background dancer in the 1989 music video "What You Need" by Stacy Lattisaw.
neAGb TIL in 1969, 17 year old Cuban, Armando Socarras Ramirez survived hiding in the right wheel well of a Douglas DC-8 on an eight-hour flight from Havana to Madrid. Upon landing he was found on the ground covered in ice and not breathing, Dubbed ''the popsicle" by Spanish doctors, he recovered fully.
8aO9K TIL "Oviparous" refers to egg-laying animals, and "viviparous" refers to animals that give birth to live young. "Ovoviviparous" refers to a hybrid-style where eggs remain inside the mother where they hatch internally and babies come out alive.
AnPn TIL that the Nederlandsche Cocaïnefabriek sold cocaine to all sides of WWI, making tremendous profits for the company and neutral Holland.
9YOAG TIL: The Pronunciation of Matt Groening's Name is "Gray-ning." I have always heard and pronounced it as "Grow-ning," but then I was watching an interview with Phil LaMarr, and he pronounced it "Gray-ning." I looked it up, and sure enough, that's how it's pronounced.