› added 6 months ago

20

TIL that a dog named Pickles helped recover the stolen Jules Rimet Trophy during a walk with his owner, just four months before the 1966 World Cup. Pickles was later invited to join the celebrations when England won the tournament.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

yBoV TIL that 1988 a chimpanzee received 400.000 votes in a mayoral election in Rio de Janeiro, coming in third place.
7Rpp TIL that Busta Rhymes was the voice actor for Reptar in the Rugrats Movie.
xrxb TIL when Iggy Pop was in junior high, to support his musical aspirations, Iggy’s parents moved out of the master bedroom of their trailer because it was the only room big enough to fit his drum kit.
R5kK4 TIL Tom Cruise’s real last name is “Mapother”
awZ4A TIL The prototype of the Rolls Royce Ghost was so quiet inside that it made test drivers sick. The engineers had to remove some of the noise isolating material, and create seats that vibrated at specific frequencies to introduce some noise into the interior.