Post * M7Mva — Curious Curator

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TIL During the 50's and 60's, Dr. Chester M. Southam injected patients and prisoners with cancer cells (HeLa cells) for research without their consent. He was reported and suspended for a year despite a cover up attempt. He later became President of the American Association for Cancer Research.

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b9p9a TIL after the TV series ended, the helicopter from Airwolf was sold and served as an ambulance helicopter in Germany until it crashed in 1992, killing all on board.

x61l5 TIL: The Russian Army began wearing socks in 2013. Before that, soldiers used portyanki (squares of cloth used to wrap feet).

Vd0k TIL Jose Mujica, famous President of Uruguay, was kept imprisoned by a dictator at the bottom of a well for 2 years.

p80ZA TIL that the first recorded example of written Finnish dates back to c. 1450 and reads: "I want to speak Finnish, [but] I am not able to".

GAgw5 TIL that India's first representative at the Winter Olympics., in 1964, was Jeremy Bujakowski, an Lithuanian born skier of Polish descent who grew up in India (and was naturalized as an Indian citizen). He learned to ski in Boise, Idaho, USA.