› added 1 year ago

54

TIL during the Falklands War, the UK considered landing SAS troops in Hercules aircraft directly on the runway of Rio Grande airbase with the aim of destroying Argentina's Super Étendard strike fighters and their anti-ship missiles. The operation also intended to kill the pilots in their quarters.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

aMgb TIL that the original pledge of allegiance was written in 1892. It read: “I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands; one nation indivisible, with liberty and Justice for all.” Many phrases were added throughout the years, with the last phrase (“under God”) added in 1954.
xVnrB TIL the Russian slang Gopnik, which is a type of hooligan that is known for posing, and hanging out in large groups, in a squatting position.
R5Rl8 TIL Limerick, Ireland is the only place in the world with the orginal KFC recipe because Pat Grace who owns Chicken Hut was best friends with Colonel Sanders, and Sanders passed on the recipe to Grace before he died.
jNB4v TIL that hens store semen in storage tubules and can periodically release portions of it over the course of a month to produce numerous fertile eggs. If they happen to mate with a male they don't like, they can simply expel the entire sample and produce infertile eggs.
dD008 TIL Puck, a male budgie, holds the world record for the largest vocabulary of any bird, at 1,728 words