› added 9 years ago

269

TIL A man bought a shipping container for $400 and found a $2,000,000 Canadian warship engine inside.

Read more cbc.ca

via reddit.com

NXLON TIL the dumb and dumber mocking bird song is a real song.
WnVL TIL George Lucas came back from shooting Star Wars in England to find Industrial Light & Magic only had 3 of the 365 shots completed yet had spent half of their $2 million. He was hospitalized for hypertension and vowed to never direct another film
MAa0 TIL An Iranian fighter attempted to down a UFO. He instead immediately lost all communications, weapons, and instrumentation, which were purely mechanical.
wLQEP TIL Silver foxes were selectively bred for domestication in the 1950's in order to study evolution. As with dogs, the ears started to droop as physical manifestation of docility, and some even started vocalizing barks as like dogs
KOA7R TIL that Arizona started issuing licenses that were good until age 60. Starting at 65, drivers must renew every five years, with a vision test each time.