› added 11 years ago

90

[TIL] Today I learned that, after retiring from football and wrestling, Bronko Nagurski opened a gas station and retained customers by screwing on their gas caps so tight only he could unscrew them

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

dDLnQ TIL about the last knight, and his stand against NAZIs.
xwK1 TIL how Oskar Schindler - in addition to saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during WW2 by hiring them to work in his factory - purposely recalibrated the machines to produce bogus artillery shells for the German war effort.
Bj0D TIL that Queen Elizabeth I had a vast spy network and one of her spies signed his reports with “007.” This was later used by Ian Fleming, writer of James Bond.
ADdQx TIL about Jára "The Master" Cimrman, a noted playwright, educator, inventor, and philosopher. Cimrman was voted "The Greatest Czech" in a national contest until he was disqualified for being fictional. Created on a radio show in 1966 to criticize the Communist government, he's become a folk hero.
yQJ6w TIL the Jane Fonda story of betraying American POWs is false. Video of one of the POWs refuting the claim in article.