Post * BodL — Curious Curator

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TIL when Yvonne Brill, the inventor of the electrothermal hydrazine thruster for rocket propulsion, died, the first line of her New York Times obituary read, “She made a mean beef stroganoff”

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pEgQ TIL that Johnny Cash’s estate once refused permission for his hit “Ring of Fire” to be used in a commercial for haemorrhoid cream.

KAeQ TIL a 9 year old boy ran away from home to fight in the Civil War. The army adopted him as their drummer boy, being too young to be a soldier. At age 11, he became the youngest noncommissioned officer in Army history, and decades later he retired as the last veteran of the civil war on active duty.

LkZLm TIL that in other countries New Zealand, Belgium, Germany, etc. have their own exotic “American” food isles in grocery stores alot like how America has Mexican and Asian isles in their grocery stores (I lived in America for all of my life obviously)

grxGW TIL: A six year old boy is the youngest soldier of World War 2.

9wDMp TIL HSV-1 causes up to about half of all new genital herpes cases despite most commonly causing oral herpes (cold sores)