Fact Quickie – YouTube Kanal-Aufrufe 0 Kanal https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy8LfEjAzL-5ZHgLUmeExUA 🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_u1GVYtgkI In the annals of gambling history, the name Titanic Thompson is one treated with reverence and awe. This almost mythical figure became a legend in his own time for his ability to perform seemingly superhuman feats to win outrageous bets, from driving golf balls 500 yards to hurling lemons clear over 5 story buildings. Along with being a well-known gambler. Thompson was also a highly-skilled pool player and golfer, to the point that given his propensity to beat some of the best in the world at golf, someone once suggested…

Fact Quickie – YouTube Kanal-Aufrufe 0 Kanal https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy8LfEjAzL-5ZHgLUmeExUA 🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUcCRaesFBc While dropping your drawers and flashing your no doubt abnormally attractive derriere at those you wish to express your contempt for may seem a relatively harmless act, it turns out at one point in history combining said act with expelling the gaseous contents of one’s colon once resulted in the deaths of at least 10,000 humans in what we here at TodayIFoundOut are confident can be described as history’s deadliest fart. So what happened here and how did the practice of mooning people begin and spread its cheeks the world…

Fact Quickie – YouTube Kanal-Aufrufe 0 Kanal https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy8LfEjAzL-5ZHgLUmeExUA 🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhXFxan9QKw In 1983, First Lady Nancy Reagan visited Longfellow Elementary School in Oakland, California, when a schoolgirl asked her about what to do if she was offered drugs. The First Lady responded, “just say ‘no.'” This trip was not the first foray by Mrs. Reagan to raise awareness regarding the dangers of drug use. However, this interaction was picked up by the press and resulted in an advertising campaign in her husband’s war on drugs. While I think we can all agree that war on drugs was a spectacular failure, or…

Fact Quickie – YouTube Kanal-Aufrufe 0 Kanal https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy8LfEjAzL-5ZHgLUmeExUA 🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-ahsGIeAM8 Running into battle armed with a broadsword, bow, and quiver of arrows was perfectly acceptable if you were fighting in the Hundred Years’ War or fending off some orcs on Middle Earth. But when it comes to World War II, such medieval weaponry looks like child’s play next to the technology of the time. A sword isn’t the most likely of defences against rifles and tanks. However, for John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, nicknamed “Mad Jack,” there was nothing he’d rather arm himself with than a trusty sword and bow.…

Fact Quickie – YouTube Kanal-Aufrufe 0 Kanal https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy8LfEjAzL-5ZHgLUmeExUA 🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aF6RIUMdco On August 9, 1991 at about 6:30 in the evening, thousands of motorists heading home after a long day of work across the UK were forced to pull over and stop due to a brief comment they’d just heard during a sports broadcast. The comment wasn’t reporting a shock loss or injury, but a joke made by cricket commentator, Jonathan Agnew, with the aftermath being so funny people had to pull over to avoid crashing their cars. The incident occurred during a rundown of that day’s cricket by Agnew and…

Fact Quickie – YouTube Kanal-Aufrufe 0 Kanal https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy8LfEjAzL-5ZHgLUmeExUA 🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl39l5Z4pXY On February 6, 2017, 46-year-old Kim Jong-Nam was waiting at his departure gate at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on his way to the Malaysian resort island of Langkawi. At 10:50 A.M, he was approached by a pair of women who proceeded to splash an unknown liquid in his face. The effects were immediate and dramatic. Kim’s pupils shrank to pinpricks, he began to sweat and salivate profusely, and within seconds he had lost consciousness, managing to stumble to a nearby ticket counter before collapsing. Paramedics soon arrived on the scene,…