Post * eQwb — Curious Curator

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TIL Ichiro Suzuki, baseball’s all-time hits leader, learned Spanish just for the purpose of trash talking opponents.

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VMGR4 TIL that James Franco launched a college course entitled "Master Class: Editing James Franco...with James Franco," in which student editors are to compile a 30 minute documentary on Franco, using behind the scenes footage of Franco supplied by Franco, to "create a cinematic image of James Franco."

j64Ja TIL The most serious attempt at secession was advanced in the years 1860 and 1861 as 11 Southern states each declared secession from the United States, and joined to form the Confederate States of America, a procedure and body that the government of the United States refused to accept.

x67Qo TIL Duffey Strode, an American former street preacher, gained nationwide notoriety in the 1980s for his style of preaching at age 10. Raised by strict, religious parents, he caught attention for loudly quoting Bible verses about Hell and sin, leading to controversy & appearances on major talk shows.

WV04 TIL that Pyotr Nesterov was both the first pilot to fly a loop in an airplane and the first to destroy an enemy aircraft in flight. He died during the latter attempt because planes did not have weapons and he had to ram it.

5VKRR TIL That the 16th century Swiss alchemist Paracelsus claimed to have created a homunculus (a tiny human) by placing a vial of semen in horse dung, burying the mixture for 40 days, then digging it up and feeding it his blood for another 40 days.