Post * XEAMj — Curious Curator

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TIL: During the times of Columbus there was a general consensus that the Earth was indeed NOT flat but Round & the myth that he set out to disprove flat-earthers was perpetuated by US authors of the 19th Century

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kgg4 TIL of John Stapp, a man who withstood 46.2 Gs of gravity, suffered a detached retina and went 632 MPH all in a single run on a deceleration sled

dD9JB TIL that a former Kellogg factory worker filmed himself urinating on a cereal conveyor belt at a facility in Memphis, Tennesse, only to upload a video of the incident two years later. Kellogg only learned of the incident after the video was uploaded.

MeRwK TIL that Geoffrey de Charny, a French knight, veteran of the Hundred Years War, writer of Book of Chivalry, dedicated parts of his book to preventing psychological trauma from warfare, and cautioned his comrades that “when they would be secure from danger, they will be beset by great terrors”.

9YGdB TIL that Betty White was the first woman to produce a national TV show, and the first woman to receive an Emmy nomination.

N7bjb TIL Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Joseph Stalin were all nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, with Hitler being nominated in 1939, Mussolini in 1935 and Stalin in both 1945 & 1948.