› added 6 years ago

455

TIL Phil Collins was the only artist to perform at both Live Aid 1985 benefit concerts. He played at Live Aid Wembley, went by helicopter to Heathrow, flew to New York on the Concorde, then another helicopter to Live Aid Philadelphia.

Read more ultimateclassicrock.com

via reddit.com

v1XOB TIL in 1995 a shirt that featured Margaret from Dennis the Menace saying “Someday a woman will be PRESIDENT!” was pulled from shelves when one Walmart shopper said it offended “family values.” It was restocked 4 months later due to women’s groups threatening to boycott Walmart.
L4m9 TIL in 2013 it cost $289,500 a year to run a hot dog cart near the Central Park Zoo in New York City.
g4GD TIL: The (Abraham) Lincoln family line has been extinct since December 24, 1985, when its last undisputed descendant, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, died without any children.
16pyd Today I learned that Early Doctors Diagnosed Disease by Looking at Urine
b9mQE TIL that Matthew Broderick (famous for playing Ferris Bueller) killed two women circa 1987 with his car by turning into the wrong lane and colliding with them head on. They died instantly.