Post * 6ENGl — Curious Curator

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TIL of Paul Alexander, one of the last few Polio survivors. He's confined to an Iron Lung and paralyzed from the neck down, yet managed to graduate from law school and wrote his memoir using only his mouth.

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gMyN7 TIL that Spain was pro-Hitler and provided volunteer forces to help Hitler fend off the USSR

0wD4j TIL An 11 year old girl could not afford running shoes, so she wrapped her feet in tape and drew a Nike logo on it. She won several gold medals in local competitions.

MeRNm TIL if the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs arrived just 30 seconds later, it would have landed in deep ocean water which would have absorbed much of the force of the impact. The resulting extinction would have been less severe, many dinosaur species would have survived, and humans would not exist

wy96 TIL Pavel Durov lost his company (Russian Facebook) after refusing to hand over data of Ukrainian protesters to Russia’s security agencies. He also donated a million dollars to the Wikimedia Foundation.

NXV0J TIL The International Fixed Calendar is a perpetual calendar that can regulate and harmonize a 13 month year, with 28 days each. Each month would begin on a Saturday (Jan. 1st) and end on a Sunday (Jan 28th)