TIL That Evel Knievel started his motorbiking career after being fired from a mining company for making a large earth mover do a wheelie and running over a main power line, which left his hometown without power for several hours.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evel_Knievel#Early_life



Submitted April 09, 2015 at 05:33AM by jfrizz http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/31xs6a/til_that_evel_knievel_started_his_motorbiking/