› added 11 years ago

81

TIL that while in the Army Clint Eastwood was in a plane that ran out of fuel and crashed into the Pacific, where afterwards he and the pilot swam 3 miles (5 km) to the California coast.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

R519 TIL in Japan, it is so common for people to die alone undiscovered for long periods, that they have a term for it, “Kodokushi”. “Their bodies lie in places undiscovered for long periods of time, and because of this, thick, dark stains shaped like a human body are left where their bodies once lay.”
NXeJ1 TIL that the longest baseball game in history was a AAA game played on April 18, 1981 between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings. It lasted over 8 hours and was suspended by the league president. They finished the game 2 months later, and in the 33rd inning Pawtucket won 3-2.
8anRb TIL that in 1983 a Mexican pilot crashed landed in a small town in Ireland and the whole town came together to build a temporary runway for him to take off again and continue his flight.
4XnPX TIL “Tzar” is just Caesar in Russian.
6KKl TIL there is a 42% decrease in air quality throughout the US on 4th July as a result of firework displays