Post * QJoOX — Curious Curator

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TIL about Marjan the lion, a beloved member of the Kabul Zoo in Afghanistan; he witnessed the country under both Soviet and Taliban occupation and survived multiple artillery strikes on the zoo during the Afghan Civil War as well as being blinded by a grenade. In 2002, he died of old age at 23 years

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Lanm TIL about the possibility of “Hypertumors”, when cancer tumor gets so big it itself gets cancer

ne0W TIL there is a man in Australia who ages so slowly that by age 40, he is only at the developmental level of a 10 year old

xVZWg TIL that the Soviets technically made it to the moon first (landing an unmanned spacecraft in one piece)

yWAX TIL Thomas Paine was condemned to be guillotined in the French Revolution. He survived because the prison officers marked the wrong side of his cell door by mistake, and didn’t notice when it was closed

ne697 TIL that in the 1940s, actress Joan Hickson appeared in an Agatha Christie play, following which the author sent her a note reading “I hope one day you will play my dear Miss Marple. 41 years later, Hickson was cast as Miss Marple in a BBC series of Marple adaptations.