Post * Vwok — Curious Curator

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TIL that Mother Teresa’s supposed “miracle cure” of a woman’s abdominal tumor was not a miracle at all. The patient’s doctors and husband said she was cured because she took medicine for 9-12 months. “My wife was cured by the doctors and not by any miracle.”

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X00Jk TIL A Stunt Pilot Died Filming 'Top Gun' [1986] in the Same Flat Spin That Almost Killed Maverick

ayPZ TIL there was a Women’s Strike of 1975 in Iceland. 90% of women stopped working, cooking, and caring for children, and the entire country ground to a halt.

BgdyK TIL that due to The Beatles retiring from live performances in 1966, some of their most iconic albums, including Sgt Pepper and the White Album, were never played live

WXJd TIL An American cannot be stripped of citizenship by the government for any reason, including treason or foreign military service. He or she must willingly choose to renounce it.

x6jW7 TIL in the 1893 case of Nix v. Hedden, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that, for purposes of the Tariff Act of March 3, 1883, tomatoes are vegetables. The Supreme Court relied on the fact that tomatoes are usually used as vegetables since they're normally served with dinner and not dessert.