› added 6 years ago

205

TIL a florida man tired of other drivers using their cellphones installed a signal jammer in his car and was fined by the FCC $48,000 for its use

Read more engadget.com

via reddit.com

grE9y TIL Hornussen is a indigenous Swiss sport. It's named after the "Hornuss" (Hornet) puck, which buzzes at speeds up to 300 km/h. First recorded in Bern 1625, in a complaint about the breaking of Sabbath. Two men were fined the sum of 20 francs for playing Hornussen on Sunday.
ayrJ TIL that the founder of Jimmy John’s is a big game trophy hunter
Vldm TIL There was so much fighting on the Normandy beaches on D-Day, that it is estimated about 4% of the sand is actually shrapnel
J7Q4 TIL that as a boy, composer Guiseppe Verdi missed his cue to give water and wine to the priest. The priest kicked Verdi down the alter steps, to which Verdi responded by saying" May God strike you with lightning". Eight years later the priest was struck by lightning and killed.
QJoKa TIL that in 2017, a security robot quit its job by drowning itself in a fountain