Post * WGwo — Curious Curator

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TIL that Wikipedia had to ban IP’s from Congress to stop them from changing each other’s entries.

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XE596 TIL Art Babbitt, the creator of Goofy, became the face of the Disney animators' strike in 1941. He would scream at Walt through a bullhorn when he rolled into work and the two nearly got into a fistfight in the parking lot

BrRRW TIL that Norman Borlaug saved more than a billion lives with a "miracle wheat" that averted mass starvation, becoming 1 of only 5 people to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and Congressional Gold Medal. He said, "Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world."

7rVpb TIL the survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash mutually agreed that if they died, the others could use their bodies for sustenance. At the beginning they only managed to eat skin and muscles, but in the end they also ate hearts and brains.

7r4lx TIL In spite of the US Constitution's "no religious test" clause, eight states have language in their constitutions either requiring state officeholders to have particular religious beliefs or specifically protecting those who do. The language condoning religious tests is allegedly unenforceable.

wLQK6 TIL The gas bags inside hydrogen airships of the 1930s were made from the outer layer of a cow’s intestines. Joined together when wet, the living tissues grow together, creating an impermeable bond. The gas bags of the Graf Zeppelin were made from the guts of around half a million cows.