› added 3 years ago

172

TIL People built a statue of “Kabang” a hero dog that got her face disfigured after saving two girls from a speeding motorcycle. She died last year, almost a decade after her heroic action

Read more rappler.com

via reddit.com

wLPbJ TIL beloved WWII correspondent Ernie Pyle was responsible for military troops receiving higher pay when in combat. Pyle felt that ground troops were at equal risk as airmen and that 'flight pay' should extend to 'fight pay'. It became the Ernie Pyle bill.
e04VE TIL about grain entrapment where farmers get engulfed in grain in silos and quite often die.
oB1L TIL- it is illegal to deny the occurrence of the Holocaust in 17 countries.
rNGy4 TIL: Bananadine is a fictional chemical that was made up by the Berkeley Barb in 1967.
4knvo TIL in the 1880s, the Harvard Observatory director was frustrated with his staff, and would say "My Scottish maid could do better!" So, he hired his Scottish maid. Williamina Fleming ran a team for decades, classified tens of thousands of stars, & discovered white dwarfs and the Horsehead Nebula.