Post * VMON4 — Curious Curator

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TIL one man who has a very rare blood type helped save the lives of more than 2,000,000 babies by donating blood nearly every week for the past 60 years

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X0ZVE TIL about Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov, the former president of Turkmenistan that ordered to close all the Hospitals in the country except for the ones in Ashgabat

e0pXg TIL in the 1960's NASA funded a study attempting to get dolphins to speak English, wherein a woman lived in a partially flooded house with a dolphin, they took LSD together, and she gave the dolphin handjobs. Ultimately, they discovered it was not possible to teach a dolphin to speak English.

e4JE TIL “Suicide is Painless” is the M.A.S.H theme song, with words, written by the movie director’s 14 year old son, and that he has earned more than 1 million dollars while his dad only made 70K total.

7nJO TIL that after the entire national Soviet hockey team was killed in an airplane crash in 1950, Stalin’s son Vasily, the manager of the team, covered up the disaster and replaced everyone on the team to avoid his father’s wrath. Stalin never noticed.

GdP5 TIL the Aral Sea (the 4th largest lake in the world in 1960) lost 80% of its volume by 1998 and went from a fresh water lake to being 3 times saltier than the ocean all due to a Soviet Era Irrigation Project