Post * R5KLQ — Curious Curator

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TIL that the Red River Floodway, a channel built in the 60's to protect Winnipeg, Canada from flood damage by diverting excess river flow around the city, was the second largest earth-moving project at the time, even more than the Suez Canal. It was surpassed only by the Panama Canal.

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NXE6 TIL President Jackson entered a duel against a man he knew to be the better shooter. Jackson allowed the man to shoot first, unflinchingly taking a bullet in the chest. Jackson then fired and killed the man instantly. Jackson lived with the bullet in his chest for the rest of his life.

WZOB TIL The biggest squid ever caught weighed an estimated 990 pounds and about 39 feet long. If calamari rings were made from the squid they would be the size of tractor tires

PBPJ TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger moved from Austria to the US with only a Gym bag, worked as a bricklayer and invested in real estate to become a millionaire before even starting his movie career

YGgW TIL there are only 8 active Wienermobiles in the United States and only college seniors who are about to graduate are eligible to become drivers.

e0AgE TIL that David Bowie did not suffer from heterochromia. Rather, he had a condition known as anisocoria, where one pupil is permanently more dilated than the other, as a result of a fistfight with a friend in his youth. That friend was George Underwood, his lifelong artistic partner.