› added 13 years ago

117

TIL that George Patton designed “the best sword ever issued to an army”

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

XGM6 TIL more than 900 American troops were alive at the end of the Korean War but were never released by the North Koreans. In 1996, as many as 15 of them might have still been alive.
aG5L TIL: In 2002 a man in Florida going through a messy divorce went fishing, caught a sailfish, and put his wedding ring on the fishes nose. Two years later, he caught the same fish again with the wedding ring still attached.
Z8xAD TIL the last words of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, “I’m bored with it all.” Spoken after suffering a stroke at age 90.
9wODG TIL Wayne Brady wrote a spoken word called: “A Piece by the Angriest Black Man in America (or, How I Learned to Forgive Myself for Being a Black Man in America)”
M7gba TIL there was a scholarship named by a mother for her son, serial killer Harvey Glatman