Post * Y9kd — Curious Curator

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TIL in 1991 a fake Russian TV program convinced many citizens that Lenin consumed a lot of psychedelic mushrooms, eventually even becoming a mushroom himself. The Leningrad Communist Party responded that “Lenin could not have been a mushroom” because “a mammal can not be a plant”

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X0enE TIL Canadian country/pop singer Shania Twain is the only female artist in history to have three consecutive albums certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA); one of those albums - Come On Over - has been certified Double Diamond.

1xjO TIL that before standard CPR was invented, the dominant response to cardiac arrest was to cut open the chest and massage the heart directly in the hands.

9wOk7 TIL that during the 1920s, Guinness was recommended to pregnant women due to the perceived high iron content of the drink

DQpmp TIL William Jennings Bryan ran 3 times for the Presidency (1896, 1900, and 1908) and, each time, lost to another William, McKinley in 1896 and 1900 and Taft in 1908

kJ591 TIL “Torn” by Natalie Imbruglia is actually a cover from the 1993 song “Brændt”by danish singer Lis Sørensen. Before Imbruglia’s version, two other covers were made by different musical projects.