› added 1 year ago

85

TIL Michael Cleveland became a beast of a fiddle player despite being born blind and with no corpus callosum (connection between the two halves of the brain)

Read more youtu.be

via reddit.com

P1bWL TIL shortly after independence, in the 1950s, Malta elected an Italian nationalist as their prime minister who wanted Malta to be part of Italy, he died two months after being elected without ever being able to make Malta more Italian than it already was.
maLo TIL The first worker to die during construction of the Hoover Dam was J. G. Tierney on 12/20/22; the last death to occur was his son, Patrick Tierney- 13 years later to the day.
VMMoD TIL That Quentin Tarantino dropped out of high school at the age of 14 and got a job as an usher at a porn theater after lying about his age. .
nWk8o TIL Abraham Lincoln had a cousin who served in the Confederate Army as a private named Abraham B. Lincoln. He deserted from the confederate army in 1864.
0wLn5 TIL that gargoyles are only considered gargoyles if they collect rainwater and spit it out of their mouth. Otherwise, they are called grotesques.