Post * OgQY — Curious Curator

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TIL Hitler had a bunker in the hills of Los Angeles built by American fascists.

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e0Pnb TIL that Charles Schulz, creator of the comic strip Peanuts, hated the name of his comic, which was chosen by his syndicate (he wanted to call it Li'l Folks). As a result, most Peanuts collections and animated specials, such as A Charlie Brown Christmas, don't actually use Peanuts in the title.

69XZm TIL of Dr. Kathy Sullivan. Sullivan was the first woman to perform a spacewalk in 1984 and the first woman to descend to Challanger Deep, the deepest part of the Ocean, in 2020.

QNa09 TIL that after George Harrison's death from lung cancer, his widow sued a doctor at the hospital where he received radiation therapy for allegedly forcing Harrison to listen to his son play guitar and autograph the guitar while lacking his mental faculties.

kODJd TIL Sea mines off the coast of North Vietnam exploded spontaneously all at once; the cause, not determined until decades later, was a solar flare

8aVeP TIL Since 1945, all British tanks are equipped with tea-making facilities