Post * l7geK — Curious Curator

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TIL that in 2003 Iraqi Insurgents attempted to shoot down a European Air Transport Airbus A300 cargo plane flying from Baghdad to Bahrain, but ultimately failed when the plane was able to return to Baghdad and land with severe damage. The firing of the missle was all caught on camera!

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16kEW TIL of "Man Walking Around a Corner", a precursor of film shot in August of 1887. The work is not a film, but a series of 16 photographs, each taken from one of the 16 lenses from Louis Le Prince's camera. A year later, he made the world's first moving image in October 1888, "Roundhay Garden Scene".

4XaNN TIL Disney uses code names in the park. Rude visitors are called 'Treasured Guests.' Vomit is called 'Protein Spill.' Kids peeing in the pool is called 'Code Winnie.' Illegally spreading ashes is called 'White Powder Alert.'

9Y8oD TIL about US presidential pet hamsters Debbie and Billie. Billie, who ate his own children, who was then eaten by Debbie, who then died of indigestion.

nee4G TIL In the Star Trek TOS episode “The Conscience of the King”, in the 1960’s-style cocktail party scene, the party music is a subdued version of Star Trek theme song, meaning the Star Trek theme song exists within the Star Trek universe.

aVZZ TIL Dr. Bernice Eddy warned the NIH that the polio vaccines they were about to release contained live polio virus. They ignored her and released the vaccine anyway, and as a result 40,000 children developed polio. The NIH director who dismissed Dr. Eddy then resigned.