› added 1 year ago

43

TIL John Paul Jones, bassist for Led Zeppelin, has been married to the same woman since 1967

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

QNyxL TIL the "tank" was named by the British military during WWI to make the enemy think they were developing a kind of water carrier instead of a secret new weapon.
b9By9 TIL songwriter James Blunt was once an army officer. He was in Kosovo in 1999 when the Russians took over Pristina airport. The NATO commander order Blunt's unit to attack and Blunt's commander refused saying we're "not going to start the Third World War."
D1bLr TIL there was nearly a Chernobyl size nuclear accident near Denver caused by a plutonium fire at a nuclear weapons production facility
kZmW TIL there’s a scene in Game of Thrones where a Meereenese rider is challenging Daenerys’ champion, shouting “Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries” in Low Valyrian.
6EDAQ TIL about Stuckie, a dog that got stuck in a tree and hasn’t decayed in 60 years because it got naturally mummified