Post * 8G6K — Curious Curator

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TIL that when faced with over 1,000 NVA troops, Roy P. Benavidez flew into a gunfight to save 12 Special Forces soldiers with only a knife. He was shot multiple times and believed dead, until he spit in the face of the medic trying to put him in a body bag.

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LQY70 TIL about the Industrial Workers of the World. A labor movement that was crushed early on for being too radical

W7yO4 TIL Mana Ashida, the young girl playing the younger version of Mako Mori in Pacific Rim (2013) could not pronounce director Guillermo Del Toro’s name, so he gave her special permission to call him Totoro-san

Brbgr TIL that in spite of there being no statues or memorials of Lincoln in the 11 states to start fighting for the Confederacy, there is a memorial to three Confederate generals built of the 100th anniversary of Lincoln's death

5VxwB TIL that silverfish and bristletails are the only insects that don't undergo metamorphosis.

QJ8na TIL in the late 80s NASA studied house plants as a means of providing cleaner and purer air for their space stations. They found Peace Lilies and Chrysanthemums to be the best all rounders at air filtering.