Post * dMyB — Curious Curator

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TIL that 62 of the 97 people onboard the Hindenburg survived when it was destroyed.

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QNVYp TIL that firefighting was an event at the 1900 Paris summer olympics. Both professional and volunteer firefighters were allowed to participate. Porto Portugal won the gold in the volunteer category, while Kansas City, USA won in the professional category

9VaB TIL that from 1964 to 1973 the United States dropped 2 million tons of bombs on Laos — enough for a full plane load every 8 minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for 9 years.

OdX4 TIL there was a German town which reportedly disappeared after it was washed away by the North Sea in the year 1362. Historians are confident that it existed, however there is debate over where it originally was located. It is sometimes called “the Atlantis of the North Sea.”

6E88X TIL about The Gospel of Wealth, an 1889 article by Andrew Carnegie that became a guiding philosophy for philanthropy as a moral obligation for the wealthy to spend their fortunes helping others that became a trend and expected of the very successful. He said: "He who dies rich, dies disgraced."

pYvpZ TIL There was a rumor that Richard Gere stuck a gerbil in his rectum.