› added 1 year ago

39

TIL as part of its foreign policy the Nixon administration actively portrayed the president as an out of control madman to try and convince hostile nations that he was capable of anything at anytime. Including nuclear war. Nixon dubbed this strategy "Madman Theory".

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

YEQZ TIL On British Airways Flight 5390 the Captain was sucked out of the cockpit when a faulty window blew out at 17,300 ft. With only his legs remaining in the plane, the quick thinking crew held onto him for 22 minutes till they safely landed. He survived.
0wGDN TIL that before his presidency, Abraham Lincoln was wrestling champion of his county. He fought in nearly 300 matches and lost only one.
r8Le TIL after being struck by lightning, golfer Lee Trevino was asked if he would do anything different to avoid it. “I’d stand in the fairway with my one iron pointed at the sky,” he said. “Not even God can hit the one iron.”
E1pep TIL that a torturer in Communist Poland, Julia Brystiger, was famous for "whipping male genitals" of her victims, some of whom later died because of this.
e0ADn TIL that the iconic Wiggles finger gesture was created so that people can always see where their hands are when taking pictures with kids!