› added 5 years ago

218

TIL Porsche tried to replace its flagship car, the 911, with the bigger, more luxurious 928, but people kept buying the iconic 911. The 911 still hadn’t had a major redesign since its birth in 1963, and only received one in 1998, three years after the 928 went out of production.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

MevOB TIL Family Guy creators used a 7 year old Youtube clip without asking uploaders permission, used it in an episode, then promptly claimed ownership and got the original taken down from Youtube.
N7g98 TIL, after being fatally shot in 1996, Tupac Shakur’s last and only words to assisting police were “fuck you”. He refused to say anything else.
rR5P4 TIL of Dipprasad Pun, a Nepalese soldier during the War of Afghanistan who was attacked by 30 insurgents. Believing he was about to die, he expended all 400 rounds of his ammunition, launched 17 grenades, detonated a Claymore mine, and killed an attacker with his tripod, causing them to retreat.
wLeM TIL Asperger’s syndrome used to be called “autistic psychopathy”
JYlbV TIL that on 6 may 1990, over 1.2 million people from Romania and the Republic of Moldova met at the border set on Prut river, as the restrictions were temporarily lifted. The event was known as the Bridge of Flowers. Many people brought flowers to meet the relatives they haven't seen in decades