Post * Xa9D — Curious Curator

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TIL Lieutenant “Mad” Jack Churchill was the only soldier of WWII to kill a man with a longbow, and the first to go into battle with one in hundreds of years. He did this while also armed with a broadsword and bagpipes, which he played while killing enemies.

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XEklj TIL That in 99’, actor Martin Laurence almost died running in the Big Momma fat suit costume in 100F (38C) heat, went into a coma for 3 days and had a body temp of 107F (41.7C)

XEOxr According to the independent research group Shrink That Footprint, apartments in Hong Kong are on average the smallest in the world (484 sq ft). The average one-bed flat size in Manhattan, New York, is 716 sq ft, in London, it is 550 sq ft. And soon, by converting drainpipes into homes, flats in Hong Kong are set to shrink even more.

45l6 TIL the Holodomor Genocide was a man made famine that killed millions in Soviet Ukraine from 1932-1933.

NLK1 TIL that way back in 2000, Netflix tried to partner with Blockbuster but were laughed out the boardroom.

4Xlpg TIL musician Jim Croce and others died apparently due to a lazy pilot. An investigation showed the plane crashed after clipping a tree at the end of the runway. The pilot had not gained sufficient altitude to clear the tree and had not tried to avoid it, even though it was the only tree in the area.