Post * 8aogV — Curious Curator

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TIL death row prisoners of Tennessee can choose between death by lethal injection or death by electric chair

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4aZ6 TIL that Scientologists tried to hijack the Hugo Awards in 1987, filling the World Science Fiction Convention with cultists in order to promote L. Ron Hubbard’s science fiction novel

XLwE TIL of Richard Jewell who became a national hero for saving hundreds of lives when he spotted a bomb at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, only to be wrongly accused of the crime 3 days later

K5vR TIL there’s a Post Office at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. It serves the Havasupai Reservation and the town of Supai, and post arrives via mule on a 2 ½ hour journey each day.

m1NKx TIL the reason why the Declaration of Independence is so faded isn't solely its age. In the 1800s, it was placed in front of a large window in the US Patent Office for 35 years.

gM5Pb TIL about the 1898 Siege of Baler. During the Philippine revolution a 50 soldiers detachment of the Spanish 2nd Expeditionary Battalion Cazadores managed to survive 337 days in a fortified church, while killing 700 Filipino Revolutionaries and suffering only 17 casualties mostly due to disease.