› added 13 years ago

409

TIL Comedian Drew Carey served 8 years in the Marine Corps where he would tell jokes to his fellow marines jumpstarting his comedy career.

Read more biography.com

via reddit.com

pYEL4 TIL in the Second Catiline Conspiracy: Cicero saved Rome's republic from a coup but had to go outside due process, leading to his exile. His exile was later lifted but his actions revealed the complete lack of confidence in the court system on which the New Republic of Sulla was allegedly based.
QJjZ6 TIL the voice of the primary Soviet radio announcer during WW2, a Jewish man named Yuri Levitan, was so unique and inspiring that Hitler personally placed a bounty (250,000 Reichsmarks, which is roughly $1.3 million dollars in today’s currency) on him.
GYnKQ TIL that there is a pink kryptonite that made Superman gay for an issue of Supergirl in 2003
x6485 TIL that in 1996 a man named Blair Adams withdrew most of his money and fled Canada after allegedly telling friends someone was trying to kill him. He was found murdered six days later, in a parking lot 2150 miles away. His murder remains unsolved.
5rp8 TIL the longest word in vietnamese contains seven letters