› added 10 years ago

270

TIL in 1981 the Chicago fire dept. tried to kill a stuntman climbing the John Hancock Centre by spraying him with fire hoses while he was 37 floors high.

Read more youtu.be

via reddit.com

18lW TIL, Kim Cattrall, while filming Star Trek IV: The Undiscovered Country, posed for photos on the Enterprise bridge wearing nothing but Vulcan ears. Fearing harm to the franchise, Leonard Nimoy had the photos destroyed.
8a6MZ TIL Dormant viruses can reactivate during spaceflight. Herpes viruses reactivate in more than half of the crew aboard Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions.
l7OZ5 TIL that when Fox Sports president David Hill introduced a score bug as part of its NFL coverage, he received a death threat from an irate viewer, with a specific emphasis on him being a "foreigner"
PlwZ TIL a “Buttload” is a real measurement equating to 108 Imperial gallons or 2 Hogsheads
dDW98 TIL that there is restaurant in Beijing that specialises in preparing dishes from the genitals (penises and testicles) of male animals.