Post * 69NPQ — Curious Curator

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TIL that Smokey The Bear had received so many gifts of honey and letters that he had to have his own Zip Code.

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7rgbb TIL George Lucas made the working title of Star Wars Episode II "Jar Jar's Great Adventure" to troll the cast and crew, even labeling the script as such in the original drafts.

xVOnw TIL that in the 1950s there was a British plan to plant nuclear mines in Germany to prevent a potential Soviet invasion with the mines being kept warm in the winter using live chickens. The idea was considered so outlandish it when it was declassified it was thought to be an April Fools joke..

D1DDV TIL Sir Patrick Stewart and Hugh Jackman hold the Guinness World Record for "longest career as a live-action Marvel superhero"

xV58D TIL about Snowflame, a DC villain that gains powers by doing a lot of cocaine.

oBQMY TIL about Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh American man who owned a Chevron gas station in Mesa, Arizona. On September 15th, 2001 he was killed by a Boeing employee as an act of "retaliation" for the WTC attacks. He is listed in the Arizona state memorial as a victim of 9/11