Post * l8GB — Curious Curator

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TIL that the first person to row solo across an ocean also once tried to commit suicide-by-jaguar.

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7rPDL TIL the very last WWI veteran died in 2012 at age 110. Florence Green had joined Britain's Women’s Royal Air Force in 1918 at age 17.

GYGa5 TIL in guide dog "training camp", puppies with the least attention from the mother dog were the most likely to become guide dogs; whereeas puppies who received the most licks and milk from mom tended to be seeing-eye dog washouts.

Edx7 TIL Meth was created in Japan in 1893. During WW2, Meth was prescribed for Tank and Bomber crews to help keep them awake. Hitler took meth via IV on a regular basis.

Z8vpp TIL Danish Astronomer Tycho Brahe owned roughly one percent of all the money in Denmark, wore a nose made of gold after losing his own in a duel and had a pet moose that he sent out to attend parties in his place until it one night got so drunk that it fell down a flight of stairs and broke its neck

DypV TIL there is an agency representing tattoo artists who are suing the makers of the game NBA2K for recreation of tattoos on players in their game without prior consent.