Post * WkPo — Curious Curator

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TIL that “Django Unchained” will become one of the over thirty unofficial sequels to 1966’s “Django”

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NxeM TIL the German Parliament building has a glass dome above it that people can walk over. This is to remind the politicians that government should be transparent, and the people are always above them.

XL8k TIL: You’ve never actually seen “steam”, only mist condensing off the invisible gas.

nmVP TIL during Delta Force hostage rescue training, the operators sometimes use live ammunition and the “hostages” are other Delta team members, in order to build trust and confidence among the team.

Eg6Po TIL Tiger Woods has a total of 20 hole in ones in his career but he went a full 2 decades between numbers 19 and 20 (1998-2018).

e0Pak TIL of Deborah Sampson (1760-1827), who fought in the Revolutionary War as Robert Shurtleff and was the only Revolutionary woman to earn a full military pension. Her identity was discovered a year and a half into her service when she fell ill during an epidemic and lost consciousness.