Post * OG0K6 — Curious Curator

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TIL During an interview with Stephen Hawking, the camera operator accidentally pulled a cable, triggering an alarm. Worried, everyone rushed over to find Hawking giggling—it was just the office computer losing power.

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JYQbv TIL about Henry Berry Lowrie. Lowrie was born to a mixed-race family during the civil war, and in 1865, saw his family executed for owning weapons. He led a gang of Indians, African-Americans, and white men, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. He disappeared at 27, and was never caught.

vjgL TIL Most scholars accept the story of Dhul-Qarnayn in the Quran is a reference to Alexander the Great

R57M9 TIL: Observing Ramadan in northern communities can be much easier or much more difficult depending on time of year (in terms of fasting between sunrise and sunset).

GYkMN TIL that Victor Hugo visited prostitutes so frequently that during his funeral, almost all the brothels in Paris closed to mourn their best client.

Lk7ZZ TIL of Richard Carmona who dropped out of high school at 16, joined US Special Forces during the Vietnam War, went on to Medical School after that, later becoming a physician. He would also serve as a SWAT commander for a county sheriff's dept. In 2002, he became the 17th Surgeon General of the US.