› added 1 year ago

39

TIL that in 2013 the LAPD got called to the infinity ward offices and got in a stand off with a life size statue of ghost from modern warfare 2

Read more polygon.com

via reddit.com

0wneL TIL that during the last few months for jazz legend John Coltrane’s death, he would take the sax out of his mouth during performances and start beating his chest, chanting, yodeling, and screaming. Sometimes Coltrane felt like even his sax couldn’t truly express what he wanted to say.
LkbLP TIL : If it weren’t for Pierre Berton, far fewer Canadians would know the legend of Sam Steele, Canada’s most famous Mountie and probably the world’s most cartoonishly Canadian person. From 1898 to 1899, Steele was commissioner for the Yukon, as thousands of men and women from around the world
b6n4p TIL : a man from colombia was diagnosed with tapeworm cancer
xVR75 TIL A private German company called OTRAG was the first to attempt to commercialize space launches. They attempted launches from Zaire now the DRC in Africa.
1Av4 TIL that there are official inspectors on the German Oktoberfest, checking if the beer is no more than 15mm below the mark after calming down for four minutes