› added 8 months ago

28

TIL: There was a plot to assassinate Jimmy Carter in 1979. The assassins names were Raymond Lee Harvey and his partner Oswald.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

dDZQ7 TIL that Gordon Lightfoot's song, Sundown, was a cautionary tale about his onetime girlfriend, the backup singer Cathy Smith, who was later convicted in the overdose death of the comedy star John Belushi after she injected him with heroin and cocaine in 1982.
WvO9 TIL there was a service dog named Endal, who, in 2001, rescued his unconscious owner by putting him in the recovery position, covering him with a blanket, retrieving his mobile phone, and running to a nearby hotel to obtain help after his wheelchair was clipped by a vehicle.
8aBkG TIL that Peter Dinklage used to front a punk band called Whizzy
R7apl TIL of the Dazexiang uprising. In Qin China, 2 generals were late for a battle. Given that the penalty for being late for a government job was death, they decided to take their soldiers and start a rebellion to fight for their freedom, as the punishment for rebellion was also death.
b954Q TIL that "daddy long legs" are not spiders. They are called Harvestmen, or Opiliones, and they are more closely related to mites.