› added 13 years ago

152

TIL on July 21, 1946, Jewish Terrorists bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, the British Administrative Headquarters. 91 people were killed and another 46 injured.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

0dejN TIL In June 2022 Belgium returned the gold-capped tooth of Patrice Lumumba. Lumumba had been executed in 1961 and the tooth was all that remained after the first Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo was dissolved in acid and his bones ground to dust.
d8dRZ TIL Steve Jobs purchased a company from George Lucas in 1986, named it "Pixar", and its first client after being incorporated was Disney.
dDlE8 TIL of Amalgam Comics, which was a collaborative publishing imprint shared by DC Comics and Marvel Comics, in which the two comic book publishers merged their characters into new ones.
p8rp8 TIL Former WWE wrestler Chris Masters "bear-hugged" a 3 meter (10 foot) tree and uprooted it to save his mother who was trapped inside her burning house.
kJ5P1 TIL that the we would know if there were Megalodon because whales would have bite marks.