› added 11 years ago

81

TIL of Bobbie the Wonder Dog, who walked from Indiana to Oregon to return to his family

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

oR1MR TIL that the first African American Governor of a US State, Douglas Wilder, wasn’t elected until 1990.
ndR9 TIL Leonard Nimoy’s funeral was free of Westboro baptist church protesters because they couldn’t figure out the location
wLnXY TIL Star Wars composer John William's son is the lead singer for the rock group Toto
GY9m7 TIL of the Chewbacca Defense, a legal tactic that confuses the jury rather than factually refuting the opponent's case. The term originated in an episode of "South Park" that satirized the closing argument of the O.J Simpson trial, and is now widely used.
P1p7Z TIL that, Nominated 49 times for the Nobel Prize without ever winning it, Lise Meitner, co-discoverer of nuclear fission, also discovered the Matilda effect.