Post * 4L06 — Curious Curator

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TIL Mother’s Day was created to honor mothers who had passed away. And the woman who created Mother’s Day regretted what it had become.

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xAbw TIL Bayer sold HIV and Hepatitis C contaminated blood products that caused up to 10,000 people in U.S.A alone to contract HIV. After they found out they pulled it off the shelves in the U.S. and sold it to countries in Asia and Latin America so they wouldn’t lose money from it.

JYdN1 TIL that Elizabeth Taylor wanted to be late for her own funeral, so the coffin arrived 15 minutes after the announced start time.

ANlOo TIL Liam Neeson was once a school teacher, but got fired because a student pulled a knife on him, and Neeson punched him

0wRpN TIL of Kevin Mitnick who was jailed for hacking and spent 8 months of his sentence in solitary confinement, as he was deemed capable of launching nuclear missiles by whistling to NORAD’s modem via payphone.

Dxkv TIL The Olympic games used to include gold medals in categories such as architecture, city planning, sculpturing and statistics. The founder of modern olympics himself, Pierre de Coubertin, won the gold medal in literature at the 1912 summer olympics.