› added 4 years ago

141

TIL President Jimmy Carter was attacked by a "killer rabbit" on April 20, 1979.

Read more onthisday.com

via reddit.com

K9DR TIL that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg worried that the Sharptooth fight and death of Littlefoot’s mother in The Land Before Time would be too frightening or even psychologically-damaging to young children, so they consulted psychologists to examine the scenes.
d8vQ TIL that the earliest known surviving pair of cloth socks was designed for sandals.
V7OB TIL when The Who played Woodstock in 1969, their 25 song set began the day at 5AM.
0w4wR TIL the location of the world's tallest tree is kept secret to keep the tree safe.
VLB8 TIL Washington State was once known as “Columbia”; which fully explains the naming of the Canadian province “British Columbia”