› added 3 years ago

139

TIL that In 1986, Apple Launched a Clothing Line

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

1YGd TIL that Dan Bullock altered his birth certificate so that he could join the Marines in 1968. Six months later he became the youngest service member to die in combat in Vietnam. He was 15.
GADx1 TIL that in the Brazilian Amazon there’s a thousand year old stone observatory similar to Stonehenge
GAlx1 TIL the notion that lactic acid is the reason we experience muscle soreness after a workout has been debunked in the 1980s. Research suggests the soreness is a result of a cascade of physiological effects in response to microscopic trauma sustained during intense exercise.
l7k47 TIL in 1996 a hippo attacked two river tour guides, drowning one and severely injuring the other. The surviving tour guide was swallowed up to his waist twice during the attack. He suffered a "gaping hole" in his back & his left arm was amputated after it was "crushed to a pulp" from the elbow down.
jDnp TIL in 1955 Jack Daniel’s was selling about 150,000 cases annually of its black-labeled Tennessee whiskey. That year Frank Sinatra endorsed the liquor during a performance. Because of that, by the end of 1956 Jack Daniel’s sold about 300,000 cases