Post * eykJ — Curious Curator

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TIL Benjamin Clark sacrificed his life to save hundreds during 9/11, he wasn’t a firefighter or a cop, he’s a chef.

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wL5AY TIL, Tommy Wiseau's 'The Room' became the first movie ever to be shot in both 35 MM film and HD simultaneously

jNJVv TIL an Italian restaurant owner boosted business by asking for tons of negative reviews to get around Yelp's positive review blocking practices

LRam TIL In 2011 NASA discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water in space to date; clocking in at 12 billion lightyears from Earth and holding the equivalent of 140 trillion times all the Earths oceans.

M7L9A TIL about Mike Millard, a legendary concert bootlegger. He would pretend to be handicapped in order to sneak in his recording equipment on his wheelchair.

mxA0p TIL about the modern 300 - in 1821, during the Greek War of Independence, 120 Greek men held out against 8,000 Ottoman soldiers, causing 900 casualties against 6 of their own deaths. This bought time for the Greek army to regroup.