› added 4 years ago

89

TIL Two years before James Brady was seriously wounded during the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, he served as a press secretary to John Connally, who was seriously wounded during the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

wXG7 TIL pawn stars is completely staged
7rYpO TIL that the original First Edition of Roald Dahl’s “Charlie & the Chocolate Factory” didn’t have Oompa Loompas, but an African pygmy tribe that he “rescued” from Africa.
6EmrZ TIL Christian Cooper was a writer and editor for Marvel comics and introduced the first gay male character, Yoshi Mishima.
94LM TIL Paul McCartney began the recording of “Hey Jude” without knowing that Ringo was absent and sitting on the toilet; Ringo tiptoed his way back into the studio just in time for the drums to come in.
eYKg TIL that a health benefit of roller coasters is that the centripetal force can help pass kidney stones