› added 7 years ago

102

TIL of Adrian Carton de Wiart a British Officer who served in 3 wars; was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip and ear; survived 2 plane crashes; tunneled out of a POW camp; tore off his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them. He wrote in WW1 "Frankly I had enjoyed the war."

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

WkXy9 TIL Gerald Ford used to tell his friends: "I know I will go to hell, because I pardoned Richard Nixon."
7O5p TIL The Senator, once the fifth-oldest tree in the world and largest pond cypress, was burned to the ground by a meth addict.
OGe7a TIL Poland's national anthem mentions Napoleon Bonaparte, praising him as "he who has shown us ways to victory"
evrL TIL the myth that carrots improve night vision was started on purpose in WII as an explanation for why german planes kept getting shot down at night. In reality, radar had just been invented.
N04J TIL that the Rolls-Royce Merlin (used for the Supermarine Spitfire during WWII) was so powerful that its exhaust yielded useable thrust.