› added 8 years ago

794

TIL That 11 years after 9/11, a piece of one of the plane’s landing gear was found wedged in between two buildings three blocks away.

Read more nytimes.com

via ift.tt

d8NWQ TIL that the Soviet Union's approach to nuclear artillery was that nuclear munitions should be fired by standard guns and howitzers (without modification) in normal artillery units.
e0jJ TIL that when Gerber began to sell their baby food in Africa, they had to remove the image of a baby from the labels, since many horrified, illiterate Africans used these images to find what the bottles contained.
R5Npl TIL: Iron can be burned for energy is a plausible alternative to coal and hydrogen. It is abundant, already has a supply chain and produces no dangerous pollutants.
GYvEQ TIL: The Shining's "Here Johnny" line was inspired by the Johnny Carson Show (also, Joker)?
0dJJ5 TIL that during the filming of the James Bond film Goldfinger (1964), the actor Harold Sakata who played Oddjob, badly burned his hand in the electrocution scene. However Sakata managed to last until the director said cut.