Post * b664 — Curious Curator

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TIL that when James French was executed by the electric chair in 1966, his last words were “How’s this for a headline? French fries.”

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XErp8 TIL that 2 students were arrested and sentenced to 7 years in prison, in Portugal for "raising a toast to freedom" in 1960. The news of this inspired British lawyer Peter Benenson to lay down the foundation for one of the largest human rights organizations in the world, the Amnesty International.

8abAa TIL there is a colony of wild wallabies living in Hawaii. In 1916 they were flown into Oahu to be a part of a private zoo, but escaped after neighborhood dogs attacked (and killed one of) them.

jNblp TIL that when Shell Oil started secretly manufacturing several hundred thousand gallons of JP-7 fuel for the U-2 spy plane in 1955, it depleted stocks of a petroleum byproduct usually included in the making of FLIT insecticide, causing a nationwide shortage of the product.

xoKw TIL that the civilian resistance to German invasion in Crete included armed nuns, priests, and an old man that beat a paratrooper to death with his walking stick.

XEaV6 TIL Squids have donut-shaped brains