Post * 6mpX — Curious Curator

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TIL Eminem was interviewed on 60 Minutes and showed Anderson Cooper how to rhyme the word “orange” by making it two syllables: “I put my orange four-inch door-hinge in storage and ate porridge with George.”

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jNZxn TIL that Ulysses S. Grant provided the defeated and starving Confederate Army with food rations after their surrender in April, 1865. Because of this, for the rest of his life, Robert E. Lee "would not tolerate an unkind word about Grant in his presence."

APXx TIL there was a ban on sliced bread in the US in 1943.

oOeR TIL that there was a Soviet Submarine that sank with 34 warheads aboard. Those warheads are no longer there.

m1pwv TIL of Bess Myerson who was the first Miss America, to be Jewish, in 1945. Reactions to her win were mixed, while Jews hailed her a hero and compared her to Queen Esther, 3 out of the 5 sponsors of Miss America refused to have her represent them. She later became a politician

b9ml4 TIL Nikolai Vavilov a botanist/agronomist that starved to death in prison to defend the importance of biodiversity in agriculture.