Post * DQ0ZD — Curious Curator

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TIL that Aimen Dean was a former member and bomb maker for al-Qaeda turned MI6 spy

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BkQr TIL a year long investigation found that the coal industry was paying doctors and lawyers to defeat benefit claims of coal miners who contracted black lung disease.

PYAwZ TIL that, in 1874, a bill was introduced in the United States House of Representatives to pay Harriet Tubman $2,000 for services she provided the Union Army during the American Civil War as a scout, nurse and spy, but it got defeated in the Senate

rvy1 TIL: There have been 4x more people who have been to the moon than have been in the bottom of Marianas Trench

D1Lop TIL Shavarsh Karapetyan dove into freezing water to rescue passengers from a sunken trolleybus, caught pneumonia ending his career as an Olympic swimmer and then saved people from a burning building

AkdB TIL the Nazis also made a film called “Titanic”. It was an anti-British propaganda piece about the famous shipwreck. The RAF bombed the theater it was to have premiered in and later sunk the ship it was filmed on, resulting 3x the deaths as the Titanic.