Post * 5YbMR — Curious Curator

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TIL US Air Force pilot Brian Udell once survived ejecting at supersonic speed, and was severely injured by the wind. His navigator did the same and died instantly.

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VMOWD TIL Crows have been found to place nuts on the road so their tough shells can be broken open by passing vehicles. They even know to wait for the red light of traffic signals to retrieve the nuts.

rRQN4 TIL about the Mirlo rescue. In 1918, an U-Boat attacked a British cargo ship off the NC coast. The ship blew up, spilling oil onto the ocean which caught on fire. The US Lifesaving Service sailed through the fire 4 times to rescue 42 of the 51 aboard.

wjJW TIL every December 25th a town in Peru celebrates “Takanakuy”. Men, women, and children settle grudges with fistfights. Then everyone goes drinking together, ready to start the new year with a clean slate.

b91DN TIL that parts from Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 were recovered from the Everglades and used in other EAL planes, after which the airline's employees started to report ghost sightings of Flight 401's pilots in those planes, which ceased when the cannibalised parts were removed

7rrlP TIL that the Marquis de Sade, from which we derive the term "sadism," actually played a part in inciting the French revolution: While a prisoner in the Bastille, he screamed from the window of his cell that prisoners were being murdered there. Ten days later, the Bastille was stormed.