Post * R7vva — Curious Curator

› added 5 years ago

74

TIL of Mustapha Khaznadar, an ethnic Greek abducted and enslaved by the Ottomans as a child, who later went on to become Prime Minister of Tunisia. He was one of the most influential people in modern Tunisian history.

Read more

JY11m TIL approximately 80000 Americans who were born in the last 50 years have contracted or will contract cancer as a result of American nuclear tests conducted in Nevada and the Pacific ocean. Soviet tests in Kazakhstan, eastern Russia. French tests in the Pacific and British tests at Christmas Island

oRJmL TIL The Babushka Lady is an unidentified woman present during the 1963 assassination of JFK, who appeared to be taking photos as other witnesses took cover. Her identity, along with her photos, remain unknown.

0wdwj TIL In the skies over Germany in WWII, a badly damaged American B-17 was escorted out of enemy airspace by a German fighter ace who could've easily shot them down. Years later after the war, Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler reunited and became lifelong friends.

EgEbX TIL the first picture of a human being taken was of a man in Paris in 1838 who had stopped to have his shoes shined and didn't move long enough to be captured in the 10 minute photo exposure time.

X0eXQ TIL that there’s a medical procedure called “Fecal Transplant” that literally consists in collecting feces, also called stool or poop, from a healthy donor and introduce them into a patient’s gastrointestinal tract. The procedure can control an infection called Clostridium difficile.