Post * 8anWK — Curious Curator

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TIL that US president George H.W. Bush narrowly avoided being eaten by Japanese soldiers during World War II in late 1944 when he was 20 years old. It is known as Chichijima incident.

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b9Pvp TIL In 1982, Dolph Lundgren graduated with a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney

gZ4b TIL J.R.R. Tolkien asked his wife to marry him by mail after no communication with her for 5 years, meanwhile she was already engaged to another man.

9YJ7B TIL Willie Francis survived the electric chair because the person that set it up was drunk. He unsuccessfully argued to the US Supreme Court that executing him again was double jeopardy. He died in the electric chair a year later.

GYwJN TIL Flamin' Hot Cheetos was invented by a janitor

0pk5 TIL that the Smithsonian was created from a donation of a wealthy Englishman that had never once set foot on American soil - and he also never wrote about or discussed the motives for this bequest.