Post * BrrZr — Curious Curator

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TIL that The Price Is Right and Grand Theft Auto logos use the same font

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KYgBB TIL that performance artist Chris Burden shot a pistol at a 747 in 1973. In 1971 he had a friend shoot him in the arm with a .22 rifle.

Lk7Np TIL about Walter Schramm and escheat. He bought AMZN stock in 90's and pledged not to look at his stock account for 20 years. After 20 years logged on and $100,000 worth of Amazon stock was gone. Taken by the state government as unclaimed property because his account was deemed inactive.

Y6RB TIL that the United States host by far more immigrants than any other country in the world at 19.8% of total. The next country is Russia, at 4.8%

0m7v TIL Polish doctor Eugene Lazowski saved 8,000 Jews during the Holocaust by injecting dead typhus cells into them, allowing them to test positive for typhus despite being healthy. Germans were afraid of the highly contagious disease and refused to deport them to concentration camps.

WkKj4 TIL the first pilot to spot incoming Japanese fighters at Pearl Harbor was a woman. Her name was Cornelia Fort and she was a civilian flight instructor. 2 years later she was killed in a mid-air collision and became the first female pilot to be killed on active military duty.