Post * kGj5 — Curious Curator

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TIL Teddy Roosevelt had his family crest tattoed across his chest

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DQPjV TIL Japan Airlines has a museum in their training facility that displays parts of the wreckage from the deadliest single-aircraft accident in aviation history to help educate future employees with no memory of the JL(JAL)123 crash of the importance of flight safety.

9wL8p TIL that the first recorded Ponzi scheme wasn’t by Charles Ponzi: it was by German Adele Spitzeder in the 19th century, who used new investors’ money to repay old investors. At her height, she was the wealthiest woman in Bavaria, until she was convicted of bad accounting and stripped of her assets

1aZV4 TIL that the lead singer of Toto, Joseph Williams, is the son of Star Wars/Jaws/Jurassic Park composer John Williams

E1ZvW TIL that the Voyager 1 is still alive and well. In December of last year, it used its rockets to maneuver for the first time in 37 years

QNxQ6 TIL that the CPR doll is modeled after a real person. Her name was L'Inconnue de la Seine and she drowned in a river near Paris. She has come to be known as “the most kissed face in the world”.