Post * 7rmj7 — Curious Curator

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TIL that Mariska Hargitay, Bryan Cranston and Carrie Ann Moss were all on Baywatch

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9wrwQ TIL That 2.8 billion years from now, all remaining Earth life will become extinct

ZXXa TIL that mosquitoes are the single largest human killers. Second only to humans.

Z8vyQ TIL that Henry Allingham, one of the last surviving veterans of WWI and one-time oldest man on earth, was called away from eating lunch to design the key countermeasure to Nazi magnetic mines - he did this in only 9 days. He attributed his longevity to "cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women."

jxBM TIL Lincoln suffered from chronic depression: “He often wept in public and recited maudlin poetry. He told jokes and stories at odd times—he needed the laughs, he said, for his survival. As a young man he talked of suicide.”

Z8VBD TIL Thomas Jefferson thought that a country's constitution should be rewritten every 19 years, holding the belief that the dead should not rule the living.