› added 3 years ago

60

TIL Elvin Bishop's "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" was sung by his background singer Mickey Thomas. Bishop felt his gravelly voice didn't suit the song and asked Thomas to take lead. It was Bishop's biggest hit, peaking at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1976.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

v1gXr TIL that the Mexican Government Has Seized 599 aircraft — 586 planes and 13 helicopters — From The Sinaloa Cartel Between 2006 and 2015. That's More Planes Than Owned By Mexico's Largest Airline.
YpMvr TIL all chaps are by definition assless chaps
8eLNP TIL that if your SSN was issued before 2011 it reveals where you lived when you got your number. The first 3 digits correspond to a specific state.
EEpV TIL that after the American Revolution, 14,000 Loyalists fled to western Nova Scotia. They were treated poorly by the existing population, so Loyalists pressed for the creation of a “Loyalist colony” that would be “the envy of the American states”. The British created New Brunswick for them.
wYBP TIL it is possible to score a “quintuple double” in basketball. This has never happened in the NBA; only in Girls high-school play.