Post * KOKxJ — Curious Curator

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TIL that when deputy-Führer Rudolf Hess was invited to the Berghof by Hitler, he often brought his own 'biologically organic' food for dinner. Hitler did not like it.

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8DoX TIL there was a game called Perplex City which involved clues on playing card to find a cube with a prize of 100000 pounds. One of the clues was called “Billion to One” which featured a man and Japanese text that translates to “Find me”. He is still missing to this day.

jJ0M TIL the actor Thomas Kretschmann, who appeared in King Kong and The Pianist, made a month-long trek from East to West Germany to escape communism when he was 19. He crossed 4 borders with only a passport and the equivalent of $100 and lost part of his finger to frostbite.

ZGLo TIL Jimmy Carter’s beer-chugging redneck younger brother Billy licensed his name to a beer brand in 1977. “Billy Beer” failed spectacularly because it was so awful. Billy said it was the reason he quit drinking.

XEZlD TIL that Marcus Garvey died after reading his own obituary in a newspaper. He’d suffered stroke in January 1940, and then read his own obituary in the Chicago defender; it described him as "broke, alone and unpopular". Apparently as a result, he had a second stroke and died.

Wrj9 TIL Ford once created a vehicle made out of plant materials. “Ford’s 1941 biological car — made of soybean, wheat, hemp, flax and ramie fibers in a soy-based phenolic resin — weighed 1,000 pounds less than a steel car”