Post * 0wRoN — Curious Curator

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TIL Membership applications by the UK to join the EU were refused in 1963 and 1967 because the French President of the time Charles de Gaulle doubted the UK’s political will.

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9JKp TIL Serial killer Albert Fish would embed needles into his groin and abdomen. After his arrest, x-rays revealed that he had at least 29 needles lodged in his pelvic region. He also hit himself with a nail-studded paddle and inserted wool doused with lighter fluid into his anus and lit it.

nWvwP TIL Bob Norris, the first Marlboro Man, was discovered after being seen in a photo with John Wayne. While Norris was the Marlboro Man for 12 years, he never smoked. He also told his kids not to smoke. After they asked why he was doing cigarette ads, he quit his job as the Marlboro Man the next day.

kJOpd TIL: The actress who played Dr. Kerry Weaver on ER developed spine issues from limping on set for ten years

5Yr1p TIL Marie and Pierre Curie won the Physics Nobel Prize in 1903. Marie Curie won the Chemistry Nobel Prize in 1911. Marie's daughter Irène and her husband won the Chemistry Nobel Prize in 1935. In total, 15 people in the family were prominent researchers in physics, chemistry, biology or medicine.

aKky TIL that a manufacturing defect saved a mobster’s life. A car bomb detonated under Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal’s 1981 Cadillac Eldorado, but GM installed a metal plate under the driver’s seat in that model to correct its balance, protecting him from the explosion. (‘Casino’ (1995) depicts the bombing.)