Post * bJaN — Curious Curator

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TIL in 2012, the Chinese Army sent a flamethrower to destroy a large wasp nest.

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PYmXZ TIL that survival expert Bear Grylls, a Special Forces Reservist from 1994 to 1997, was very lucky to survive a parachute malfunction while training with the SAS in Africa. His parachute split at 1,600 feet. He fell and landed, fracturing three vertebrae. Incredibly, his spinal cord stayed intact.

vO17 TIL George Lucas wanted to build a movie studio on his San Francisco area property but was denied permission by his posh neighbors. After 25 years of litigation, he has now decided to build low-income housing on the property.

0wWEj TIL that filmmaker Ralph Bakshi grew up in an all-black neighborhood in Washington, D.C. and got his mother's permission to attend the local segregated school with his friends. The school called the police and, afraid whites would riot if they learned that a white student was attending, expelled him

mXrp TIL a guy dissected every scene from lost and put them in a chronological timeline. He took every flashback, flash forward, and flash sideways, extracting them from the present day stroyline, and one big timeline.

ROn7 TIL Lego has no military related sets because the inventor’s policy was to not want to make war seem like child’s play