› added 12 years ago

133

TIL the Yellow Power Ranger is dead

Read more wikipedia.org

via bit.ly

9wP6 TIL Cher Ami, a pigeon in the 77th Division in WWI, successfully delivered a message stopping the friendly artillery fire on the 77th Division’s position, even after being shot, and won the French Croix de guerre.
VMp1p TIL that farmers in USA are hacking their John Deere tractors with Ukrainian firmware, which seems to be the only way to actually own the machines and their software, rather than rent them for lifetime from John Deere.
d8ywB TIL Thomas Jefferson for many years "kept, as his concubine, one of his own slaves” named Sally Hemings.
A1Dn TIL Paul McCartney, when writing Eleanor Rigby, named her after a costar and a store, only later to find a Grave of Eleanor Rigby near where John Lennon and Paul met.
Q5Pp TIL that in “Monty Python And The Holy Grail” during the Black Knight battle, when the Black Knight is down to one leg left he is played by a real one legged man because John Cleese could not balance well on one leg.