Post * RWMw — Curious Curator

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TIL of the great filter theory. Which suggests the reason we can’t find advanced civilizations in our galaxy. Is because there is some factor or process preventing them from arising or prospering.

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oBDnA TIL a pulp and paper mill in Ontario was a NAZI pow camp in WWII, and a captured navigator drew a map of the world by hand that is still there behind glass.

LkKy0 TIL about the Murder of Dora Bloch. Bloch was a 75 year old woman that was a hostage on Air France Flight 138. She was taken to a hospital and later killed by officials.

6EORW TIL Marlon Brandon was in the Civil Rights movement throughout his career, and later advocated for the rights of indigenous Americans. His outspoken activism, in the midst of the harshly segregated '60s, earned him a reserved place near the podium of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 "I Have a Dream"

ADGaw TIL Joesph Kennedy father of JFK once started film companies in Hollywood, had an affair with Gloria Swanson, only to blow it all up and bow out of Hollywood less than a decade later.

mOvO TIL in 1992, the Grateful Dead read an article about poverty threatening to keep newly-independent Lithuania’s basketball team out of the Olympics. The Dead funded the team. The tie-dye-uniformed Lithuanian’s won the bronze medal.