Post * a8LVo — Curious Curator

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TIL that Max Schmeling was the only boxer to knock Joe Louis out in his prime, despite the fact that Schmeling was a decade older than Louis, at the time they fought.

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8aOZP TIL that in 1987, an undercover FBI agent approached 106 New York City officials with offers of various kinds of bribes. 105 officials accepted the bribe. The 106th official refused, because he wanted a bigger bribe.

0waOA TIL some BB gun pellets can go through a child's skull and cause brain damage (case studies in link)

epBBD TIL that in the early 90's Bart Simpson T shirts were banned at many schools across the country

41Aw TIL that after George R. R. Martin saw the Breaking Bad episode “Ozymandias”, he called the show “amazing” and noted that “Walter White is a bigger monster than anyone in Westeros”

R7En8 TIL that in 2013 the United States bombed the island of Guam with 2,000 dead mice stuffed with painkillers to kill the Brown Tree Snake which is an invasive species on the island. The snake got there by accident in the 1950s on a shipping vessel.