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TIL JFK's sister Rosemary Kennedy, was born mentally disabled because during her birth, the doctor was not immediately available and the nurse ordered Rose Kennedy to keep her legs closed, forcing the baby’s head to stay in the birth canal for two hours...resulting in a harmful loss of oxygen. (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted by GlebeKensington
TIL That the French philosopher and mathematician Descartes was hired as a tutor by the Queen of Sweden, who insisted on philosophy lessons at 5 in the morning. Within a year of walking through the Swedish cold every morning, Descartes caught pneumonia and died. (biography.com)
submitted by White___Velvet
TIL an African Wild Dog named Solo, after losing her entire pack to a lion ambush, exhibited unprecedented behaviour by forming a surrogate pack including a Hyena with whom she would typically want to kill, and a family of Black-backed Jackals, with pups that she treated as her own. (tvblogs.nationalgeographic.com)
submitted by t4yl0rj4d3
TIL a San Antonio news station had to call in a Bomb Squad after bring sent a suspicious cake with wires sticking out of it. A number was written on the box which made the cake vibrate when dialed. Attached was a note signed by the Joker. It was all part of a marketing campaign for The Dark Knight. (nerdyvision.com)
submitted by ImRickJamesBich0
TIL that JFK would not let Sammy Davis play in the White house in 1961 after his interracial marriage Illegal in 31 states at the time. His marriage not only made headlines, it inspired death threats and demonstrations and forced Davis to hire 24-hour armed guards. (newsbusters.org)
submitted by _demetri_
TIL Actor James Woods observed and reported suspicious behaviour from four passengers, with no apparent luggage, casing the plane. Six weeks later, these same passengers carried out the 9/11 attacks. The FBI received Woods' FAA report the evening of September 11... (abcnews.go.com)
submitted by Gingivitor
TIL Scientology obtained their tax exemption from the IRS by having P.I.s dig into the personal lives of IRS managers and initiating hundreds of law suits against IRS employees. Eventually Scientology offered to drop all suits for religious tax exemption and the US government caved. (nytimes.com)
submitted by Eurotrashie
TIL of Fabian von Schlabrendorff, a member of the German resistance against Hitler who survived the war, because while awaiting his trial, the courtroom took a direct hit from a bomb during an air raid killing the Judge, who had condemned all his of his co-conspirators to death. (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted by fingersoconnell
TIL Ostriches have terrible ground fighting skills. If you can manage to get behind one, cinch your arm around its neck tightly and use your momentum to fall to one side. While on the ground and keeping hold of the neck, make sure to chop the throat repeatedly until the bird loses consciousness. (danieljserra.com)
submitted by S_king_
TIL that legendary gambler Phil Ivey won over $9 million dollars playing baccarat with the help of a woman named Chen Yin Sun. Sun spent hundreds of hours memorizing flaws in the patterns on the back of the playing cards--aberrations along margins of the card backs, no wider than 1/32 of an inch. (flushdraw.net)
submitted by xSialicAcidx
