Post * aw4MJ — Curious Curator

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TIL "No Woman, No Cry" was written by Jamaican songwriter Vincent Ford who meant the chorus to mean "No, woman, nuh (=don't) cry" but used the english creole language Jamaican Patois. He was running a soup kitchen and was a friend of Bob Marley, whose royalties kept his soup kitchen running.

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WBpd TIL in 1987, a former airline worker shot his boss mid-flight, causing the stewardess to tell the pilot “We have a problem!”. The pilot asked “What kind of problem?” and at that moment, the man shot the stewardess dead & announced “I’m the problem” before murdering the pilots and crashing the plane

e06An TIL: The majestic call of the American Bald Eagle is a myth. The sound we associate with eagles is actually that of the red-tailed hawk, which is dubbed over. For such a powerful bird, the Bald Eagle emits surprisingly weak-sounding calls—usually a series of high-pitched whistling or piping notes.

B4Gk TIL that the Miami Bath Salts Cannibal was actually not high on bath salts when he ate the face off of another man along the MacArthur Causeway three years ago

B6d TIL that a high school girl became the first person to fold paper in half 12 times. She also derived the mathematical equation that describes the limit of paper folding

QJwNe TIL a 6 year-old, Bea Dean-Lewis, was playing a computer game with her mom, who suddenly collapsed. Bea knew she wasn't sleeping since she snores, so she used her mom's fingerprint to unlock her phone and call the ambulance, saving her life.