› added 12 years ago

174

TIL that Ron Jeremy has a masters degree in special education

Read more reddit.com

via reddit.com

gmJ9 TIL BP refused to allow clean up workers to wear respirator masks while working with toxic chemicals following the Gulf spill because they were worried about the negative PR
9YEQp TIL the pirate 'Black Bart' believed Irish people to be some of the worst people to have on your crew due to them being highly mutinous. As a result, many people who Bart tried to force into piracy would often fake an Irish accent so they could get out of it.
mx0ex TIL in 1952, at the age of 18, Donnie Dunagan became the Marine's youngest-ever drill instructor. He served 3 tours in Vietnam and was wounded several times, earning 3 purple hearts. He also kept a secret for over 50 years that he was a child actor and the voice of young Bambi.
p81Eb TIL that horsehair worms are parasites. The can live inside a cricket and control it boosting chemicals in its host's brain. They also eat all cricket's stored-up fat and crickets lose their chirp.
y1B8 TIL when Napoleon’s Marshall; Michel Ney was being sentenced to execution after Waterloo, Ney’s lawyer in his defense argued that Ney was now a Prussian and could not be tried by French laws, Ney interrupted him saying, “I am French and I will remain French”. Ney was later executed