Post * 4kBD5 — Curious Curator

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TIL that swinging our arms when walking makes us spend less energy and walk faster than if we tried to hold them still.

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7ZyM TIL Winston Churchill’s famous witticisms were planned weeks in advance by studying the issues and imaging all possible social interactions. He did this to combat a speech impediment.

wNb8 TIL U.S. Medal of Honor recipient Pililaʻau was found surrounded by 40 dead Korean soldiers and him holding a trench knife.

8XRG TIL that a former child model once known as “Britain’s Little Angel” ended up in jail after murdering a doctor while high on cocaine.

Jwnl TIL that a dog named ‘Fido’ returned to a bus stop in Italy over 5,000 times (over 14 years) to wait for his deceased master to get off the bus, even during “violent allied bombardment” of the area and then eventually died waiting at the bus stop..

Jdnk TIL that Mao and the Chinese Communist Party leaders had a quota of up to 4 deaths in a thousand, as they went about breaking up the social structure and land reform after the formation of the People’s Republic. Landlords were first up for executions.