› added 7 years ago

162

TIL that Larry Swearingen is scheduled to be executed in November despite the fact that he was literally in jail on unrelated charges at the time of the crime.

Read more larry-swearingcom

via ift.tt

m1d4Y TIL: 42% of Americans believe in ghosts and 18% believe they had a paranormal experience according a 2009 Pew Research. In recent years, there has been a rise in Queer Ghost Hunters across several states looking for queer ghosts to record the ghost's stories.
MRZA TIL in 1943 300 extermination camp prisoners escaped after assassinating over 12 SS officers
LQrOQ TIL 'previous translations (of Mein Kamf) had corrected the language, giving the false impression that Hitler was a "cultured man" with "coherent and grammatically correct reasoning"'
781dX TIL:Josefina Guerrero (August 5, 1917 – June 18, 1996) was a Filipina spy during World War II. Guerrero had leprosy and was an unsuspicious and effective surveillance asset for American allied forces.
dl8E TIL Joe Castiglione, Red Sox radio broadcaster, told Daniel Nava to swing as hard as he could on the first pitch before the game because “that’s the only first pitch in the majors you’ll ever see,”. Nava is only the fourth player to have hit a grand slam in his first at-bat.