Post * 6EnWZ — Curious Curator

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TIL "The Way" by Fastball, a classic 90's jam, is about an old couple with Alzheimer's that died while driving from TX to AR.

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8e61X TIL two mirrors facing each other don’t produce infinite reflections

b69N7 TIL in 1899, the Mississippi River froze over near Cairo, Illinois, and icebergs broke loose and continued to float downriver through New Orleans before reaching the Gulf of Mexico.

XEG9r TIL that Samsung used to be a grocery store at first , and became the giant of electronics after 1969.

b9LEE TIL Norilsk uprising of 1953 was the largest in the history of GULAG. There were up to 16,378 inmates on strike at the same time, 70 % of which were Ukrainians. It lasted for 69 days and is known as "Uprising of the Spirit"

yNQp TIL that a British soldier who fought in both World Wars was shot in the face, head, ankle, leg, hip and ear, survived a plane crash, tunnelled out of a POW camp, and bit off his own fingers when a doctor wouldn’t amputate them. He later said “frankly I had enjoyed the war.”