Post * a6W9 — Curious Curator

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TIL that “Jim Wilson” is the code name given to a cadaver being flown on a commercial flight.

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0wpEA TIL a Kent State communications major took an audio recording of the war protest from his dorm room in 1970. He created the only real-time account of the shooting, and his original tape was destroyed by the Department of Justice in 1979.

GAmNG TIL PFC Sadeo Munemori was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for diving on a live grenade. He was the only Japanese American decorated during or immediately after WWII.

GAEk1 TIL Brian Helgeland, the director of A Knight's Tale, had the cast arrive in Prague a month early to rehearse & bond. Although Heath Ledger noted that it was mostly to bond, "we just spent a month drinking together. So rehearsals were just drinking & getting to know each other...we hit all the bars"

4X4kN TIL after falling out with her son, Elton John’s mother hired an Elton John tribute act to play at her 90th birthday party.

bElN TIL that worker productivity starts to decrease after working more than 50 hours a week, then decreases sharply after working more than 55 hours a week to the point that working 70 hours produces nothing more than those who work 15 hours less.