Post * N7YG1 — Curious Curator

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TIL that in 1951 the St. Louis Browns used Eddie Gaedel, a little person, to pinch hit for an easy walk. It was the first and last time a little person played in a Major League Baseball game.

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Y7nyr TIL that Wan Hu, a 16th-century Chinese official, is said to have attempted to launch himself into outer space in a chair to which 47 rockets were attached. The rockets exploded, and it is said that neither he nor the chair were ever seen again.

9YXeB TIL The present urban population is larger than the total population of the world when Richard Nixon was inaugurated as president of the United States of America

oRMVK TIL in 1993 Canadian election, Progressive Conservative party ran an ad focusing Liberal party leader's facial paralysis. PC party lost 154 seats and got only 2.

kJrZd TIL in 1959 a white man from Texas disguised himself as a black man and traveled for six weeks on greyhound buses. After publishing his experiences with racism he was forced to move to Mexico for several years due to death threats.

jNZZv TIL American artist Chris Burden Had himself shot in the arm by a friend, as a part of a performance art piece called "Shoot"(1971) and when questioned about the work on BBC in 2012, he said "I had an intuitive sense that being shot is as American as apple pie".