› added 11 months ago

45

TIL Pigeon racing is the sport of releasing specialized, trained homing pigeons.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

lgM7 TIL a lawyer was hired for a traffic case. Instead of sitting his client at the witness table, he dressed another lawyer to look like the client. When the only witness (a policeman) was asked to point to the defendant in the room, he pointed to the fake client. The real client was found not guilty
W7o9o TIL A 69 year old woman took South Korea's written driving test 960 times before she finally passed and was given her license
klvg TIL in 1957 five US military personnel agreed to stand directly under a nuclear detonation
rRrKo TIL that bulldogs can’t get pregnant or give birth naturally. They have to be artificially inseminated and then have a c-section. They technically should be extinct.
RNm1 TIL that chess grandmaster and concert pianist Mark Taimanov became the father of twins at 78