Post * 9kvM — Curious Curator

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TIL that a man has replicated what the Rebel Yell in the American Civil War sounded like

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x6oK0 TIL that, at different times, both Jimi Hendrix and Joe Pesci played for Joey Dee and the Starlighters, the house band at New York's Peppermint Lounge

oyyA TIL during the Battle of Stalingrad, Soviet losses were so great that at times the life expectancy of a newly arrived soldier was less than a day, and the life expectancy of a Soviet officer was three days. Combat was so fierce, at one point a railway station changed hands 14 times in six hours.

M7ojA TIL that the famed Rolls Royce Merlin aircraft engine used during WW2 era in the Hurricane, Spitfire and P-51 Mustang fighters is named after the bird of prey (a falcon, formerly known as pigeon hawk in US) and not the magician

OGkj1 TIL how many A list actors and actresses signed the Polanski petition

LvYp TIL that a photographer taking pictures of air pollution unknowingly captured pictures of a couple committing suicide