Post * 0wpkN — Curious Curator

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TIL: When testing underwater acoustics during the cold war in 1960, scientists detonated a series of 300lb bombs off of Perth, Australia. This was heard three and a half hours later 10,000 miles away in Bermuda.

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xVAQk TIL President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda hold the Guinness World Record for "Greatest Robbery of a Government". They stole hundreds of millions of dollars causing the total national loss from between $5 and $10 billion

O1ya TIL Nirvana and Soundgarden shared a member and he went on to became a Green Beret

yVe6a TIL People born in American Samoa are not US Citizens.

9YWeB TIL in 1889, President Harrison signed identical documents that created North and South Dakota as states. No one knows which state was the 39th or the 40th to enter the Union because Harrison signed the documents blind and declared, “They were born together; they are one and I will make them twins."

JeWQ TIL a father and young son were kidnapped and brought to a construction site where the kidnappers cut the father’s throat from ear to ear, shot the son 3 times, then the kidnappers buried them. The father escaped, walked ¼ mile, and flagged down a police officer. He survived. The son did not.