› added 9 years ago

215

TIL that Mafia capo Gregory Scarpa was recruited by the FBI to find information on the murders of 3 civil rights activists by the KKK using extrajudicial methods. He attained the location of the bodies by pistol whipping a Klansman and putting a gun in his mouth.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

rNkVM TIL after 50 years researchers have identified the mystery man on the album cover of Led Zeppelin IV as Lot Long, a thatcher who was born in Mere, Wiltshire in 1823 & died in 1893. At the time of the photograph, he was a widower living in a small cottage in Shaftesbury Road, Mere.
p8wyN TIL 24 astronauts flew around the moon. 12 of those walked on the lunar surface, and 6 of those drove a lunar rover on the moon. 3 astronauts have been out to the moon twice, and of those 3, 2 of them have landed. Nobody has been on the moon more than once.
g1b4 TIL The oldest woman alive in 2006 (125-year-old Fulla Nayak) claimed that Marijuana was her secret to long life.
VBlvp TIL glyphosate in urban humans' urine in the west exceeds 5-20x the amount permitted in German drinking water
v10K TIL The Cash family blocked Preparation H from using Ring of Fire in what could have been their best commercial ever.