Post * WkyW4 — Curious Curator

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TIL: Ozzy Osbourne from Black Sabbath once fell asleep during a driving test, waking up to a note saying 'you have failed'. He passed in 2009, age 60, on his 19th attempt.

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yV7Zw TIL you are supposed to use a new section of floss for each tooth (not one string of floss for the entire mouth)

dm97 TIL that Robert Downey Jr. once rescued an elder woman by using his jacket to tie around her wound and ordering people to call an ambulance. The woman’s granddaughter thanks him fifteen years later.

Oope4 TIL Alexander Tukhachevsky was a Russian general who died at the Battle of Warsaw in 1831. Almost a century later, his great-grandson, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, also a Russian general, would be defeated at the Battle of Warsaw in 1920.

awkyM TIL that the first Harry Potter Book was rejected by 12 different publishers, before being accepted by Bloomsbury. The CEO of Bloomsbury said it was "The Biggest Publishing Phenomenon of Modern Times."

wDnW TIL There´s a hugely popular reality show in China that interviews death row prisoners moments before their execution