Post * dDYvE — Curious Curator

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TIL that matches were not created until 1826. As John Walker swirled a pot of chemicals, a lump formed at the end of the mixing stick. He tried peeling the dried chemicals off, burning the stick, and inadvertently creating matches.

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VBp5k TIL that David Dao, the doctor who was forcefully removed from United Airlines Flight 3411, was also a popular musician back in Vietnam.

4Wlo TIL of Nancy Wake, a secret agent who served Britain during WW2 and who became the Gestapo’s most wanted person. Her exploits included judo-chopping a man to death, and cycling 310 miles undetected through German territory and checkpoints to replace codes which had been destroyed in a raid.

b9DyN TIL that a pet bird once helped solve a murder.

nWB5d TIL 25000 disabled people were sterilized in Japan between the 1950s and 1990s, at least 16,500 forcibly

ZjKB TIL Alfonso Ribeiro said the Carlton Banks character was as far away from who actually was as possible. He grew up with hip hop in the Bronx, and never heard of Tom Jones and had to have CDs and articles brought to him to learn what Calrton liked.