Post * LQLvQ — Curious Curator

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TIL Margaret Hamilton, known for playing Almira Gulch and the Wicked Witch in the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz, was only 36 years old at the time of filming; a full 18 years younger than Billie Burke, who played Glinda.

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kOoQe TIL that a woman refused to board a lifeboat when the Titanic was sinking as she refused to be parted from her dog. Several days later, passengers on the SS Bremen passing by the wreckage in the water, saw the body of a woman tightly holding a large shaggy dog in her arms.

PMxV TIL that the Soviet Union disguised their flamethrowers to avoid sniper targeting during WW2

ZpdnB TIL modesty can be fatal. Studies reveal people often refuse to remove wet clothes in freezing conditions, risking deadly hypothermia, or strip for anthrax decontamination showers, delaying lifesaving measures, increasing toxin exposure, and creating challenges for emergency responders.

7BDL TIL that young Greek hoplites (citizen soldiers) had to dress in heavy armor and run a foot race of 1,300 ft in the Olympics. This was done to develop the battlefield tactic of rushing to the Persian lines in rapid pace so as to counter their archers.

lood1 The boomerang seems as Australian as ''Waltzing Matilda,'' but the oldest specimen may have come from a far distant part of the world -Poland. Scientists, there have found a 23,000-year-old piece of the curved mammoth tusk that some ancient artisan carved and polished into the aerodynamic shape of a boomerang.