littleblacktruck
littleblacktruck t1_ivwg8m7 wrote
Reply to TIL in 1996, surveyor Mike Tate got a side street in NC renamed for the band Anthrax. After the 2001 Anthrax attacks, town residents were suddenly uncomfortable with the name and petitioned to have it changed. by aaj617
Anthrax said they were going to change their name to Basket of Puppies. Google it.
littleblacktruck t1_iujw66p wrote
Reply to TIL that after being initially cancelled, the second season of ‘Jericho’ was only reinstated after fans sent 20 tons of nuts to CBS studios in a nationwide protest. by GezimS
There was a time travel show called Journeyman and people sent in Rice-a-roni when it got cancelled. Sucks. It was a good show.
littleblacktruck t1_jctv1y3 wrote
Reply to comment by hillo538 in TIL that in WW2, a Marine Corps Corsair pilot used his propeller to chew off the tail of an enemy aircraft after his guns jammed, while under fire from the enemy plane's tailgunner. The enemy plane crashed but the Corsair pilot made it back to base, receiving the Navy Cross for his actions. by hipster_deckard
Brit spitfires would bump into unmanned V-1 rockets to disrupt the rocket's gyros and telemetry systems, causing the V-1 to go full redditard and crash. (BTW, V-1 had a ridiculously simple gasoline pulsejet engine with no moving parts. Just a combustion chamber, inlet, and outlet. They sound absolutely badass. At 2:40 they put a blower motor in front of it so you can hear what the engine sounded like in flight.)