› added 12 years ago

87

TIL J. D. Tippit was a police officer with the Dallas Police who, according to two government investigations, was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald after Tippit stopped Oswald following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Oswald’s initial arrest was for Tippit’s murder, not Kennedy’s

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

pGeN TIL the saxaphone was banned in Nazi Germany for being too sexy.
oRxA8 TiL that because of creative differences following the recording of "By the Way", Flea nearly quit the Red Hot Chili Peppers to teach full time at a music conservatory.
GYWBE TIL that back in May 2016, in order to show the absurdities of software EULAs, the Norwegian Consumer Council did a live, word-by-word, non-stop reading of all of Apples and 3rd party EULAs on an "average" iPhone. It took them over 32 hours.
ywPX TIL that “sentience” means “the ability to feel” and does not mean “self aware”. “Sapience” is the ability to have complex thought. Therefore, it is probably true that all animals with a brain are sentient.
MeWrK TIL of Grigory Perelman, the mathematician who solved one of the most difficult math problems ever conceived and turned down multiple awards, including a $1 million dollar prize. When questioned by one persistent journalist, he said “you are disturbing me. I am picking mushrooms.”