Post * VBkrQ — Curious Curator

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TIL of the SS Birma, which steamed to aid The Titanic. They arrived too late to help, but held a memorial with a British flag they created themselves, and also took photographs of icebergs in the vicinity of the sinking.

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LPQr TIL that the Chinese have developed a type of rice that can survive on seawater

gn7W TIL in WW2 the Finnish bombers joined the formations of returning Russian planes and bombed the landing and landed planes.

JL0l TIL when volunteers providing food to elderly and poor people through the Meals on Wheels program began to notice that people were sharing their limited food with their pets, an organization called AniMeals was developed to feed their pets as well.

woeZo TIL that the 'Flash Gordon' comic strip had to contend with accusations of blasphemy when the Hawk Men were first introduced because the winged extraterrestrials too closely resembled angels

4Xavg TIL In 1977, Bill Murray was struggling to make it on Saturday Night Live so much that he delivered an on-air plea for the audience to laugh whenever he said something. In the early going on SNL, Murray, then in his mid-20s, was generally deemed a failure