Post * b9orQ — Curious Curator

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TIL Surplus jet engines were used to de-ice railroads in Russia

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08j5 TIL That we use Diamond Rings to propose due a marketing strategy by a jewelry company from the 40’s

R75r8 Being wary of Friday the 13th is much more than a quaint superstition observed by a few uneducated people in distant, unreachable towns and hamlets. In the United States alone, it is estimated that between 17 and 21 million people dread that date to the extent that it can be officially classified as a phobia.

jNJlv TIL of Ralph Lazo, a 17-year old American student of Mexican and Irish descent, who voluntarily relocated to a World War II Japanese American internment camp, to provide moral support and share in his friends’ struggle; he would spend three years living there

7r617 TIL that the average male gorilla is about 20 times stronger than the average adult man.

nWe97 TIL that at 14, Robert McGee was tomahawked, shot with a pistol and multiple arrows, and scalped while he was still conscious. He survived.