› added 1 year ago

36

TIL that boxing trainer Eddie Futch trained four of the five people who defeated Muhammad Ali (Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Larry Holmes and Trevor Berbick).

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

VjRk TIL Jonathan Brandis, best known as Sebastian in the sequel to ‘the NeverEnding Story’ auditioned for the role of Anakin in 'Star Wars: Episode II’ Sadly, today marks the anniversary of his death 12 years ago. RIP
wLyJ7 TIL that in 2006, the Sex Pistols were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but they refused to attend the ceremony, calling the museum "a piss stain".
BrW0b TIL Walt Disney wasn’t cryogenically frozen. He was cremated and his ashes interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. The rumor that he wanted to be frozen was started in 1972 by the president of the California Cryogenics Society and has since been denied by Disney’s family.
yLoV TIL Someone serving in the American military is 15 times more likely to be sexually assaulted by a compatriot than killed in action.
BOXr TIL The US Army Special Forces have a training exercise where they have to liberate a fake country called “Pineland” in the style of a LARP. Since the exercise is based within an actual town, actual civilians are often called upon to preform roles such as shopkeepers or torturers.