Post * kJ6ZE — Curious Curator

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TIL that some residents of the Mexican cities of Madero and Tampico hold a belief that their homes are shielded from hurricanes by a group of aliens monitoring the coasts from an underwater base miles off of Miramar Beach.

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nemDW TIL of the 1995 Bojinka plot: a plan to assassinate the pope, bomb 11 US-Asia airliners, and fly a plane into the CIA headquarters. It was foiled after an accidental fire drew suspicion from Filipino police. It was financed by Bin Laden and 9/11 is considered to be a 2nd attempt at a similar attack.

b6Lk7 TIL the lyrics to the song "Winter Wonderland" were written by Richard Bernhard Smith while he was hospitalized for tuberculosis treatment. He would die of the disease a year after the song was first recorded.

RDw6 TIL German shepherds where renamed to “Alsatian Wolf Dog” after World War I due to the anti-German sentiment of the era.

b9ZG4 TIL that naked mole rats can survive 18 minutes without oxygen and suffer no lasting effects. They achieve this feat by switching their metabolism to use fructose, instead of glucose, something typically only done by plants.

RwK4 TIL of Mary Fields, a 6’, 200-pound former slave who became the second woman and the first African-American to work for the US Postal Service in Montana. She began to work for the USPS at the age of 60 after hitching a team of six horses faster than any cowboy and never missed work in 10 years.