Post * ZpVGR — Curious Curator

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TIL that Jerry Springer was born in a London bomb shelter during WWII

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gmV4 TIL that over 90 people volunteered to die in Operation Crossroads, the Navy’s first atomic test in the Bikini Atoll, including geriatrics, the suicidal, and one death-row inmate. All were, of course, refused.

rRgpo TIL earthworms we know today are not native to the US but were brought over by Europeans.

69bbQ TIL helicopters can produce deadly turbulance at airfields which can make small "General Aviation" aircraft lose control and crash if not properly managed.

xVNl5 TIL That when Napoléon I emancipated the Jews he stated "I will never accept any proposals that will obligate the Jewish people to leave France, because to me the Jews are the same as any other citizen in our country" the Russian Orthodox Church labelled him as the 'Anti-Christ and The Enemy of God'

KNAJ TIL that Ernest Hemingway lived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, dysentery, skin cancer, hepatitis, anemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, two plane crashes, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a ruptured liver, a crushed vertebra, and a fractured skull.