Post * 6EEQY — Curious Curator

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TIL Curb Your Enthusiasm's iconic theme song originated from this scene in a 1974 Italian film, "La Bellissima Estate"

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OxKe TIL that Ernst Kaltbrunner, a Nazi War Criminal living under a false name, was caught because his mistress saw him by chance and called out his name and ran to hug him

P19EL TIL about the forced expulsion of the Chagossians, when the UK, at the request of the US, began expelling the native inhabitants of the Chagos Archipelago in 1968. The entire population of the Chagos was removed to Mauritius and the Seychelles by 1973

9L7X TIL that only one of the guards of the Standford Prison Experiment was particularly brutal, and the more brutal he became, the more prominently he faked a southern accent.

LQAEv TIL - until 2015, when the United States military would train and use dogs in helping with the war effort, once they became no longer useful or too old they were considered “retired” and simply abandoned.

a8GwM TIL of the "Variable-Incidence" wing solution to increase angle of attack during take-off and landing without hindering pilot visibility of the runway. It works by moving the entire wing up/down like one was shrugging their shoulders. The F-8 "Crusader" from the late 50s is an iconic example.