Post * D1DNr — Curious Curator

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TIL that half the world watches live broadcasts of the Olympics

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69MY TIL that people started flipping one cigarette upside down in their packs because of a myth that early ‘Lucky Strikes’ contained marijuana.

9oYX TIL the phrase “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps” was originally meant to describe an absurdly impossible action. The phrase is an adynation, a figure of speech in the form of hyperbole taken to such extreme lengths as to insinuate a complete impossibility.

R5YAw TIL about Haym Salomon, a Jewish merchant, who personally lent over $650,000 (~$20 million in 2025) to fund the American Revolutionary War in 1775. The money he lent was never repaid and he died penniless.

OGoA1 TIL of Etta Mae Lopez, a California woman who waited outside a jail all day and slapped the first deputy who came out, in order to get sent to prison where she hoped to quit smoking

DQB9P TIL In 1946, an American miner and Baptist preacher named William Henry Johnson began sending out a series of letters under the pen name "Furrier No. 1", claiming to be the living Hitler and to have escaped with Braun to Kentucky.