Post * kJL0g — Curious Curator

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TIL power generators are among the deadliest household products because of the possibility of carbon monoxide poisoning.

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M5EA TIL when Tommy Chong went to prison, his cellmate was Jordan Belfort, the Wolf of Wall Street. Chong is the one who convinced him to write his memoirs

KYMjB TIL that Lewis Stone, who played Mickey Rooney's kindly old father in the Andy Hardy films, died of a heart attack while chasing the neighborhood kids off his lawn.

adRo TIL “Max Heiliger” was a fictional name created by the Nazis and used to establish bank accounts to launder valuables stolen from those killed in the concentration and extermination camps. Using the name “Heiliger” was a cynical Nazi joke, since the word means saint, from the word heilig (holy).

dpJ8 TIL Peyton Manning is number 18 on honor of his brother Cooper, who had to retire in high school due to a spinal injury. His brother, Eli later went on to be the starting quarterback at the same high school, as number 18

EaJp TIL Theodore Roosevelt was the first U.S. President to fly in a plane - and he nearly fell out. He described it as ‘the bulliest experience of this life’