› added 10 years ago

140

TIL in July 1984 President Ronald Reagan called ice cream “a nutritious and wholesome food” and established National Ice Cream Month.

Read more presidency.ucsb.edu

via reddit.com

ANJ5a Today I learned that the USS Samuel B Roberts is the deepest shipwreck in the world.
jNdOn TIL that the New Zealander singer Wing sent Trey Parker of South Park a letter of thanks as a result of the boost of sales of her records after she was featured in a South Park episode.
LQr7r TIL The Netherlands "declared war" on the Isles of Scilly in 1651. A peace treaty was signed in 1986 after a historian informed the Dutch Embassy in London that the war was still technically ongoing. It lasted 335 years and not a single shot was fired.
bnkp TIL Wu-Tang Clan has an ASL translator that goes to all their shows.
OGgnX TIL in 2013 two Iranian F-4 Phantoms attempted to intercept a drone escorted by two F-22 Raptors. Due to having a bumblebee-sized radar cross-section, an F-22 was able to fly underneath an F-4 to see its weapons without it noticing then flew next to the F-4 and radioed "you really ought to go home."