Post * LN8P — Curious Curator

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TIL: In 2006, Hungarian protesters hotwired a 50 year old Soviet T-34 tank that was part of an outdoor memorial and drove it against the riot police.

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Wk8Mo TIL about Ray Chapman: the only player to die from injury during a MLB game. It was allowed at the time to do anything to the ball from using saliva to dirt, making the ball hard to see. Chapman is believed to not have seen the ball at all which struck him in the head and killed him

xVgv5 TIL As president, Herbert Hoover became the first chief executive to harness federal power to combat a crippling global recession. Hoover reformed America’s prisons, improved worker safety, and fought for better health for children

VE9G TIL our brain perceives people who annoy us as moving slower than they actually are

rNGKW TIL about Preston Tucker, an idealistic automobile maker who vowed to build the world's greatest and safest car in 1946. Once production began, Ford, GM, and Chrysler had his company shut down and his manufacturing plant seized by the US government. Only fifty cars were made.

1aK6O TIL that Aldo Donelli played in the 1934 World Cup for the US and later coached the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Rams in the NFL.