Post * NnlM — Curious Curator

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TIL one twin from a premature birth was declared clinically dead, came back to life after laying on his mother’s chest for two hours

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MeGkW TIL that during Rock Springs Massacre in 1885 a mob of white coal miners in Wyoming attacked Chinese miners, many of whom they burned alive. Others were “scalped, mutilated, branded, decapitated, dismembered, and hanged,” killing at least 28. Sixteen men were arrested, but none were indicted.

EgMO7 TIL that Japan received its first female fighter pilot in 2018. She was inspired as a child by Top Gun but could not become a combat aviator until the JSDF began accepting female candidates in 2015.

gMAVW TIL in 1924, a Russian scientist started blood transfusion experiments, hoping to achieve eternal youth. After 11 blood transfusions, he claimed he had improved his eyesight and stopped balding. He died after a transfusion with a student suffering from malaria and TB (The student fully recovered).

v56B TIL that even with the extremes of Mt Everest & the Mariana Trench the Earth has less deviation from an idealized spheroid than a billiard ball.

NXeO6 TIL the cities of Chicago and Washington D.C. have curfews prohibiting anyone under 18 years to be outside after 10-12 PM.