› added 12 years ago

215

TIL that the Germans used Churchill’s famous Tommy Gun portrait as Nazi propaganda

Read more famouspictures.org

via reddit.com

x608g TIL when it gets cold enough, daddy long legs will huddle together in the thousands to create warmth.
e0enE TIL in 1339, French soldiers mistook hare making noises as an English attack. William II, Count of Hainaut quickly knighted 14 squires for battle. However the English attack never came and, after the reason for that became clear, those knights became known as the Knights of the Hare
wLxDM TIL the main reason the British lost the American Revolutionary War was because it was essentially a global war with all of the main armies in the world against the UK. Most of the fighting took place outside of the US, and the American Revolutionaries played very little role in their 'win'.
epAeJ TIL Michelle Pfeiffer stayed away from all talk shows to promote her movies for over 15 years. She was on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" in the early 1980's and avoided public interviews until 1997 when she appeared on the Rosie O'Donnell show to promote "A Thousand Acres."
E1Kjo TIL the cover of the Rolling Stones album Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! was originally going to feature an elephant, but the band settled for a donkey.