lo98K TIL that the actor who played Peter pan died of overdose in NYC and was buried in a mass grave in Hart Island. It was found out because his mother wanted to connect him because of his father's passing.
9YLNr TIL Pete Maravich said “I don’t want to play 10 years in the NBA and die of a heart attack at age 40.” and then played in the NBA for exactly 10 years and later died at age 40.
JYLy4 TIL Early in his naval career, Horatio Nelson nearly died while fighting a polar bear. Wanting the bear’s pelt as a gift for his father, Nelson’s gun misfired and he attacked the bear with the butt of his rifle. He was only saved when his ship fired a cannon that scared the bear and it ran off.
mxpnx TIL, Hisashi Ouchi, whose chromosomes were literally destroyed due the extreme radiation, was kept alive, even though he wanted to die, due to his family not giving up. His heart stopped for 47 minutes.
Z8G7p TIL of Dax Cowart, a Vietnam vet who suffered devastating burns after a gas explosion in the 1970s, and who endured 14 months of agonizing treatment that he did not want. He survived, married, went to law school and continued to argue that his doctors should have allowed him to die.
BrwYr TIL China kept quiet about poisoned baby formula because they didn't want to ruin the 2008 Olympics. 54,000 babies were hospitalized and 6 died.
WkZwY TIL After Canadian Prime Minister Diefenbaker visited Washington, Kennedy said he never wanted “to see the boring son of a bitch again”
9Yy5r TIL Emperor Nero had become so fond of a gladiator called Spiculus, that when he was overthrown in 68 AD, he wanted to die a swift death at the hands of him. But his aides could not get hold of Spiculus in time and Nero took his own life
AD6VB TIL Vin Diesel wants to reach 10 movies in the F&F franchise because he promised Paul Walker.
XEnNr TIL about a Hungarian soldier named Paul Kern who stayed awake for 40 years after being shot in the head during World War I. Doctors encountering his condition were always skeptical, but Kern traveled far and wide, allowing anyone who wanted to examine him to do so. He died in 1955.