Post * Bgwkb — Curious Curator

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TIL Napoleon Bonaparte was once attacked by hundreds of bunnies during a hunt

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d8Vj9 TIL of McArthur Wheeler who, in 1995, robbed two Pittsburgh banks with his face covered with nothing but lemon juice, which he believed would make it invisible to the surveillance cameras on the principle of invisible ink

x64Bo TIL about the 1875 Dublin whiskey fire, where a river of whiskey flowed through the streets, leading to 13 deaths from alcohol poisoning instead of burns or smoke inhalation.

0dgyL TIL once commonly known as “the redwood of the east,” American Chestnut trees are almost entirely extinct in the wild as of the 1940s with the exception of small, scattered populations

JYg91 TIL that when the UK government did not celebrate the Royal Air Force's 50th anniversary with a flypast over London, one pilot performed his own, flew through Tower Bridge, round Big Ben...and was fired.

y7w8 TIL in 1961 the US Air Force accidentally dropped two nuclear bombs on North Carolina, each more than 250 times the destructive power of the Hiroshima bomb, but nether exploded. One of them remains buried in the ground where it landed.