› added 7 years ago

100

TIL that during the Korean War, the U.S Military ran out of mortar rounds and as a result accidentally ordered thousands of crates of ‘Tootsie Rolls’ candy. This is because the U.S Army used 'Tootsie Roll’ as a slang code for mortar shells.

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

gMkDW TIL that instead of saying "once upon a time," Korean fantasies usually begin with "back when tigers used to smoke".
nW40G TIL: Button-Down and Button-Up dress shirts are 2 different things, and the terminology is referring to whether the collar is buttoned down to the shirt (or not)
vRDR TIL That Islam Allows abortions during the first trimester, or if the baby may cause a treat to the mothers life as life is valued more than the fetus.
dDRLr TIL John Paul Scott is the only person to have escaped the infamous Alcatraz Penitentiary by fashioning water wings from rubber gloves. Scott made it to the San Francisco shore but suffered from hypothermia and exhaustion, and he was recaptured by military police the following morning.
7r9mM TIL When Michael J Fox gave testimony to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee in 1999 about his Parkinson's, he deliberately went without medication beforehand to show the effects of the disorder.