Post * 49VJ — Curious Curator

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TIL Ted Nugent shit his pants and quit bathing to avoid the draft

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9YA9p TIL of Hannah Senesh, a Jewish paratrooper and poet during the Holocaust. She was captured, tortured, and eventually executed, but never gave up her comrades. "I could have been twenty-three next July; I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost."

6EN8Q TIL that the 20th President of the US, James A. Garfield, contributed an original proof of the Pythagorean Theorem before he became president. He came up with it during a discussion with other members of Congress, and it was published in the New England Journal of Education.

jNklX TIL the amount of arable land (land that crops can grow on) per person on the planet is .19 hectacres, less then half a football field (excluding endzone).

kN5d TIL Steve Job’s biological father’s name was Abdulfattah Jandali. He came to the US as a student. He was from Homs, Syria.

Kjmw TIL Dutch drivers are taught to open the car door with their right hand, so they have to look over their left shoulder, allowing them to see a bicyclist before they accidentally “door” them.