› added 12 years ago

541

TIL more people have walked on the moon than scored against mariano rivera in the postseason

Read more usatoday.com

via reddit.com

rge0 TIL of Lafayette Pool. He was a tank platoon commander during the Allied Invasion of France, with 12 tank kills, 258 armored car kills, and over 1,000 Nazis killed.
OGxk7 TIL that the alien bodies retrieved at the 1947 Roswell crash were actually deformed children created by Nazi Joseph Melenge and sent by Stalin in an effort to create panic of a Mars invasion.
VBRxG TIL the smallest island in Manhattan is the 100x200 foot artificial island "U Thant Island," officially "Belmont Island," created during the 1915 construction of the Steinway Tunnel directly underneath. It is home to a small colony of double-crested cormorants.
X0ZB6 TIL that a film adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Twits has been in development since 2003 and is scheduled to release in 2025.
wboM TIL a writer was upset with an online review of his book, so he traveled to Scotland, hunted down the reviewer, went to the store she worked at, and hit her in the back of the head with a wine bottle.