Post * 4Gja — Curious Curator

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Today I learned Steve Jobs used his money to take an organ from a more deserving person.

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NXpd1 TIL I can task my subconscious mind, as if it was an employee, and it will process information and make a decision while I actively do something else

BrQBW TIL that in 2001 a cat was cleared of the smothering death of a baby. Nicola Payne had found the cat lying on her boy's face when she went into his bedroom. She tried frantically to save him, but he was dead. Pathologists found that sudden infant death syndrome --not the cat, was the cause of death.

oReRo TIL that to keep young military recruits' attention, the Nazi's tiger tank manual was filled with dirty, jokes, limericks and porn. The manual also contained a big breasted blond character named Elvira, usually sketched in red to more readily jump out of the pages.

rRdod TIL when "Battlefield Earth" won the Razzie Award for Worst Movie of the Decade, screenwriter J.D. Shapiro accepted in person saying: "No one sets out to make a train wreck. Actually, comparing it to a train wreck isn’t really fair to train wrecks, because people actually want to watch those."

MR4W TIL In 2003, a 727 that once flew for American Airlines disappeared from Angola and prompted a worldwide search by the FBI and the CIA. The plane has never been found.