Post * XEPYD — Curious Curator

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TIL about the G.I Joe Fallacy, named so by two women professors at Yale, means that knowing is not half the battle. But knowing that the G.I Joe Fallacy is a fallacy is less than half the battle.

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x69a0 TIL that chicken nuggets were originally known as "Chicken Crispies" by Robert C. Baker, the food scientist that invented them.

MeLkV TIL "bury the lede" is spelled L E D E and has nothing to do with the word lead.

GYEgN TIL Kwihnai Tosabitʉ (White Eagle), a Comanche medicine man, convinced his tribe that they were invincible before a battle. After their defeat, he was blamed and thereafter known as Isatai'i (Coyote Vagina)

mxNQO TIL that Pope John Paul II was shot and critically injured in an assassination attempt. The Pope survived and forgave the attacker, and even requested that the man be pardoned from life imprisonment. After the Pope died, his would-be assassin visited his tomb and laid flowers.

6Ev8W TIL of Henri Giraud, who escaped German captivity in World War I by pretending to be a circus performer, and AGAIN in World War II by scaling down a mountain fortress in his 60s.