Post * kOVLE — Curious Curator

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TIL Austin St. John, the original Red Power Ranger, went on to become a Paramedic.

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mxr8p TIL Peanuts, pistachios and other 'nuts' that aren’t actually nuts. They’re legumes.

Zp0dB TIL about the Battle of Hodów, where 400 Polish Soldiers managed to defeat around 40,000 Troops of the Crimean Khanate.

dpL9 TIL that Einstein and his wife once visited the enormous Mount Wilson Observatory with astronomer Edwin Hubble. When told that Hubble’s telescopes were revealing the ultimate shape of the universe, Einstein’s wife nonchalantly responded, “Well, my husband does that on the back of an old envelope.”

ELZp TIL that Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon, learned to fly before he learned to drive.

eLB5 TIL Dan Aykroyd proposed to Carrie Fisher on the set of their film The Blues Brothers. She said: “We had rings, we got blood tests, the whole shot. But then I got back together with Paul Simon.”