Post * LkOjP — Curious Curator

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TIL that when a man had a heart attack at a grocery story in rural Minnesota, 20 people lined up and performed CPR on him for over an hour and a half until paramedics arrived - and he survived

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69b17 TIL using special aquariums, a team of researchers proved that some flowers that grow in the ocean are pollinated by plankton and invertebrates just like flowers on land. Inside each flower is a nutritious substance filled with pollen that sticks to the animals when they move from flower to flower

BwKr TIL while in the military Mr. T was ordered to cut down trees as a punishment by a sergeant. He cut down 70 trees in 3 ½ hours before a shocked major superseded the sergeant and ordered him to stop.

1aYYD TIL the black strips below the eyes of NFL players was first used by baseball legend Babe Ruth in an attempt to reduce sun glare. Although studies have not conclusively proven its effectiveness. Wearing “eye black” now is more like modern war paint.

8emPG TIL that during the filming of Planet of the Apes in 1967, the cast self-segregated. Lead actor Charlton Heston said that the "chimpanzees ate with the chimpanzees, the gorillas ate with the gorillas, the orangutans ate with the orangutans, and the humans would eat off by themselves."

7rVpb TIL the survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash mutually agreed that if they died, the others could use their bodies for sustenance. At the beginning they only managed to eat skin and muscles, but in the end they also ate hearts and brains.