Post * GYeAG — Curious Curator

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TIL the Swastika symbol dates to 13000 BC and has been used by many cultures on nearly every continent.

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ANLpn TIL that Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) wrote that criminals are distinguished from noncriminals by multiple physical anomalies and that these anomalies were able to predict the type of crime (theft, robbery, murder, arson)

gMM78 TIL that the creators of Scooby-Doo, The Jetsons, & The Flintstones offered Jack Nicholson a job as an animator when he was 17 years old. He turned them down.

M6aK TIL that due to decades of fire prevention leading to an increase in fuel for forest fires, Smokey Bear has actually helped make forest fires more dangerous than otherwise

eplw6 TIL about anti-tank dogs. During WWII Soviets trained dog to run under German tanks with explosive on them so they would blow them up.

J1l74 TIL that during the Vietnam War, the Battle of Hamburger Hill was named by American soldiers who felt the intense, grinding combat was like being “chewed up like hamburger meat.” Fought over Hill 937 in the A Shau Valley, the battle resulted in high casualties after ten days of fierce fighting.