Post * OoZMg — Curious Curator

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TIL that in Vietnam they call the Vietnam war, “The American War”

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410o TIL On December 11th 2002 two motorists called the police reporting of a car veering off the road. A search uncovered a car concealed in dense undergrowth and the long dead driver nearby. The man had in fact been dead for 5 months.

neD19 TIL that mystery writer and the inventor of the detective novel Edgar Allen Poe's death is actually a mystery itself. The death certificate and medical records were lost and there is no definitive cause of death.

RWl TIL Harry Truman, on a visit to Disneyland, refused to go on the Dumbo ride so that he would not be associated with the Republican party.

OD07 TIL that in 40 of the 50 states, coaches are the highest-paid public employee.

JQk TIL George S. Patton participated in the first ever modern pentathlon Summer 1912 Olympics. In the pistol shooting competition, controversy came about because he said the holes in the paper were so big he shot through the some spot twice. It was credited as a miss.