Post * WkvY — Curious Curator

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TIL that a man named Corey Taylor faked his death to get out of a Verizon cell phone contract

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KOb14 TIL about the Native American version of a Trojan Horse. In 1763 Native Americans played a early version of Lacrosse outside a British fortress during the Pontiac's Rebellion. They hit the ball through the open gate and both teams chased after the ball. Once inside they killed the soldiers.

A6Nn TIL Sylvester Stallone’s uncompromising character John Rambo committed suicide in the original cut of First Blood (1982). This was changed because it was considered too depressing, and the new ending allowed for the later big-budget sequels.

v1aK8 TIL that Americans threw $8.5m worth of silver coins into the sea before the fall of the Philippines. American and Filipino POW divers were coerced by the Japanese to recover it but they sabotaged the operation by secretly appropriating some portions of the haul to fund the Philippine Resistance.

m1JVy TIL: The Inaccessible Island Rail (laterallus rogersi) has evolved to be the world’s smallest flightless bird on a remote island free from predators. The introduction of a few mating pairs of rats would likely decimate the rail’s population.

R5DGl TIL Walter Cronkite initially came to fame as a war reporter during WW2. Cronkite was the first American to do an uncensored report on Operation Torch, flew in bombing raids, fired a machine gun at a German fighter, covered the Nuremberg Trials, and was a reporter in Moscow from 1946-48.