Post * jydE — Curious Curator

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TIL Alexander Graham Bell didn’t invent the telephone, Italian Antonio Meucci did and Bell took the credit.

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8aJoX TIL of Otto Skorzeny, an SS commando who among other feats rescued Mussolini from a mountaintop prison, spread chaos undercover in American uniform and was later recruited by the Mossad

P114O TIL about disgraced German journalist Claas Relotius, who until 2018 completely fabricated stories about the US to stir up anti-American resentment

g8XW TIL the only person besides Harrison Ford to appear in all three original Indiana Jones movies was an Englishman named Pat Roach. He also died twice in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

J1L1Q TIL that Brazil's 1-7 loss against Germany at the 2014 World Cup broke a 62-match unbeaten streak for Brazil at home in competitive matches, that went back to 1975

9VoG TIL that self-perceived unattractive people are more inclined to care about equality issues and hold liberal values where as self-perceived attractive people are less likely to care about equality movements and hold conservative values.