› added 10 years ago

117

TIL in 2002, a group of 37 deaf people showed up at a Queens of the Stone Age concert during their tour of “Songs For The Deaf”

Read more blabbermouth.net

via reddit.com

MeBX8 TIL the world record holder for fastest downing of a yard of beer was the Prime Minister of Australia, Bob Hawke.
e4b5 TIL that a mother kissing her baby allows her to sample the bugs the baby is exposed to, leading to the production of custom antibodies in her breast milk to help the baby fight the bugs
QJR0E TIL Russian backed rebels that are alleged to have shot civilians airliner MH17 LOOTED the bodies and used the credit cards of the victims...
K8YQ TIL that comedian Andy Kauffman would threaten to read passages from The Great Gatsby if hecklers got too rowdy. In addition to often following through, he would then ask if the audience wanted to hear a record instead; the record was always of him reading from where he left off.
l7OG TIL that the reason Kevin Carter waited 20 minutes before taking his controversial Pulitzer Prize winning photo of the starving Sudanese child is because he was waiting for the vulture to spread its wings. It didn’t in the end, so he took the photo and moved on.