Post * D07e — Curious Curator

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TIL, “No one in the U.S. has died from a black widow spider bite in over 10 years.”

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QxBa TIL Blink, the band that forced blink-182 to add the “-182” to their name ended up opening a show for blink-182

Mb6W TIL There’s a Russian superstition that if there’s a fly in the room, you shouldn’t say anything that’s secret because flys are all spys for Baba Yaga (the witch that lives in the woods). Its an old pagan superstition from before the communist revolution.

kO7e1 TIL the first man made object in space (not orbit) was a rocket launched by the Nazi Wehrmacht.

8apKX TIL a SwissAir flight was recording a documentary when an engine failed. The film crew was able to capture the calm and cool of the pilots while they turned the engine off, informed passengers, dumped fuel, ate chocolate and took a coffee break.

W8lL TIL that during a siege, the Mongols catapulted corpses that were infected with the plague over the city walls to infect the inhabitants.