Post * AODl — Curious Curator

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TIL a woman suffering an asthma attack died after 2 EMT workers told people to call 911 because they were on break

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4Py5 TIL that C-3PO and R2-D2 had their own 1985 single season 13 episode spin-off TV series.

8aX9L TIL Malcolm X said that white people could not join his black nationalist Organization of Afro-American Unity, but "if John Brown were still alive, we might accept him." Brown was a famous abolitionist convicted and hanged for treason after attempting to lead a slave rebellion in 1859.

ANZll TIL while struggling to sell stories as a writer, George RR Martin capitalized on the early 1970s chess craze (due to Bobby Fischer's win) and was a tournament director for the Continental Chess Association.

l78eK TIL 50% to 60% of all allergy blood tests give false-positive results. False-positive results show you have an allergy even when you don’t. Skin tests tend to be more accurate.

6DjX TIL that L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, falsely claimed to have been a nuclear physicist. In reality, he flunked both high school and college, leaving after his sophomore year at George Washington University during which he failed a course of “Molecular and Atomic Physics.”