Post * g1e8 — Curious Curator

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TIL Bob Odenkirk (Breaking Bad’s Saul Goodman) read his lines for the final episode only. He threw the script in the trash and made sure he won’t find out the ending until it airs on television (FIXED)

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6EprY TIL that the most skilled sniper in all of World War I was a Canadian Indigenous man, Francis Pegahmagabow. He had 378 confirmed kills, captured over 300 enemy soldiers, and spent his post-war life fighting for Indigenous rights. He remains the most decorated Indigenous soldier in Canadian history.

xV9Og TIL of Hatty, a Labrador retriever who was sworn in as an IL County "Comfort Dog." Her paw was on a law book as an oath was read. Hatty's job is to comfort sexual trauma victims during testimony and interviews; the dog will work 9 - 5 on up to 200 cases per year. She was trained by prison inmates.

9YW0D TIL that during World War I, a series of wolf attacks made Russian and German soldiers team up to fight wolves. After seeing wolves attack wounded soldiers and children, the commanders on both sides signed a temporary armistice, and killed hundreds of wolves. They then resumed fighting each other.

kJlNg TIL that, in 2014, a man armed with a knife entered The White House by hopping a fence and running through an unlocked door despite the President being there just minutes before.

vbR7 TIL Hustler Magazine owner Larry Flynt survived an attack by a serial killer, but was paralyzed from the waist down. He pleaded for his attacker to not be executed, saying “a government that forbids killing among its citizens should not be in the business of killing people itself.