› added 5 years ago

127

TIL that after President Kennedy was shot Jackie Kennedy wore her blood-soaked, pink dress to both the hospital and the swearing in of President Johnson. The unlaundered suit was donated to the National Archives and Records Administration and will not be placed on public display until 2103.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

XEYNX TIL Cebu City is the busiest sea port in the Philippines and was also once a bustling commercial hub between Mexico and China. However, almost none of its long coastline contains beaches and it is instead occupied by industry, ports, slums and marshlands
QNlPX TIL Johnny Cash is the voice of Space Coyote in the Simpsons peyote episode
9YMem TIL Green Beret Major Jim Gant, nicknamed “Lawrence of Afghanistan” by General Petraeus, went full native in Afghanistan during his last deployment in Kunar Province, and was allegedly marked for death by bin Laden himself.
ADeXw TIL that the People’s Temple Basketball team were among the only Survivors of the Jonestown Mass suicide because they were playing at a basketball tournament in Georgetown.
LQkbv TIL a 2010 survey showed that there were no Italian-born people living in Manhattan's Little Italy, and only 5% of the neighborhood's residents identified as Italian-American.