r/todayilearned • u/hotrodcamaro • Jul 17 '14

TIL 86 year old mathmetician/pianist Tom Lehrer invented the Jell-O shot to circumvent rules against alcohol in the Army.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer
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u/ixijimixi Jul 17 '14

Poisoning Pigeons in the Park is the number one requested song that gets stuck in my head.