Post * 8er68 — Curious Curator

› added 1 month ago

4

TIL: Guitar brand Epiphone was founded in the Ottoman Empire. Founder Anastasios Stathopoulos originally made fiddles and lutes

Read more

DQapV TIL that Anne Frank's stepsister is still alive. Eva Schloss and her family lived in the same apartment block as the Franks, and she often played with Anne and Margot. She and her mother survived Auschwitz, and her mother resumed her friendship with Otto Frank after the war. They married in 1953.

Y88A TIL that a self-filling water bottle is being developed that draws moisture from the air - up to three liters every hour. It works by mimicking the way a beetle survives in the African desert.

QNDVk TIL That the Airfield where the Wright Brothers first flew, has its own IATA Airport code (FFA) and is a National Park where you can still land planes and Gliders.

e0nj5 TIL that TLC planned to make a reality show about NASCAR wives but cancelled it before airing because the wives got along too well

69MDW TIL that at 15, Kara Robinson was kidnapped and assaulted by a serial killer for 18 hours. She managed to escape after manipulating him to feel at ease. She later helped police to capture him because she had memorized details of her surroundings.