› added 7 years ago

90

TIL that Harry S Truman's middle initial doesn't stand for a middle name. It's just an S.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

ek16 TIL the X’s that you often see on the sides old moonshine jugs in cartoons and popular media actually signified how many times that particular batch had gone through the still, being that the basic pot-stills of yesteryear required you to distill the mash several times before you got pure alcohol.
GAXWN TiL that Nils Lofgren, best known as an ace guitar player in Bryce Springsteen's band, played the piano part on Neil Young's song "Southern Man" and that it's style was based on accordion Polka music
DQ0Wg TIL that as a student growing up in Ukraine, Maryna Viazovska (right) fell in love with competitive math Olympiads. In high school, she fell just short of being able to represent Ukraine at the International Math Olympiad. In 2022, she won a Fields Medal.
gkoy TIL that, following the Bloody Sunday massacre in Northern Ireland, the British home secretary, Reginald Maudling, told the House of Commons that British paratroopers had killed 13 civilians in self-defense. Bernadette McAliskey, a Northern Irish MP, walked across the floor and slapped his face.
00Yp TIL after a bombing run a damaged bomber was flying home when Luftwaffe pilot, was ordered to shoot it down. He refused as he saw it as dishonourable and flew with it to open sea, to prevent it being shot down. The two pilots met 40 years later and become friends for the rest of their lives.