Post * R9xQ — Curious Curator

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TIL in 2005 HIGH TIMES suggests moving 4:20 to 5:20: “When you’re working a 9-to-5 job, sometimes it’s worth waiting the extra hour.”

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8abbP TIL The Nazis used triangular badges or patches to identify prisoners in the concentration camps. Different colored patches represented different groups. In Mauthausen Concentration Camp the Jews wore red and yellow triangles forming a six pointed star.

XER0D TIL about the attempted hijacking of FedEx Flight 705 by a disgruntled employee who filled a guitar case filled with hammers and a spear gun. The captain (ex-Navy) performer extreme arial maneuvers while the first officer and engineer fended off the attacker. The plane landed safely and all survived

QJeD6 TIL One of the attractions of the port city Liepaja( Latvia ) is a night in jail. The haunting Karosta district offers accommodation in the old military lockup complete with Soviet-style treatment.

oBZO7 TIL Doris Miller was a cook who saved lives and gunned down Japanese warplanes while serving on a ship during WW2. He had no previous training with an anti-aircraft gun and was awarded the Navy Cross and Purple Heart. Despite his heroism, he was assigned as a cook on Liscome Bay and died by torpedo.

rNwnd TIL in 1940 a Jewish couple fled Paris just before the Nazis seized the city on a pair of homemade bicycles. Among the few possessions they carried with them was the manuscript they created for the a book called Curious George.