› added 6 years ago

301

TIL about Robert Wright and Kenneth Moore. Two combat medics who parachuted behind enemy lines on D-Day without weapons. For 3 days without sleep, they treated wounded soldiers from both sides and civilians.

Read more youtu.be

via reddit.com

lRKV TIL Jim Carey was so terrible at basketball during the filming of Cable Guy that he could barely dribble, so he mimed basketball actions and a ball was added in post production.
9YXMG TIL Hitler declared that the Japanese were Honorary Aryans
aZ5J TIL of the NYC “Pizza Principle” which is a historically accurate “economic law” reported by The New York Times where the price of a slice of pizza has matched the price of a subway ride. It has been successfully used to predict the increase of subway fare on multiple ocassions.
b6YK0 TIL Jack Black’s mother was an engineer for NASA who worked the problem of getting the Apollo 13 astronauts home while she was in labor.
p8AKG TIL A South African veterinarian employed by the Apartheid government was engineering for them a virus that selectively sterilized only black people.