Post * lo507 — Curious Curator

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TIL about 9-year old Robert Douglas Spedden, who in 1915 was one of the first pedestrians killed by a car. Three years earlier he had survived the Titanic sinking.

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OonML TIL that after Michael Jordan dunked over 6-foot-1 guard John Stockton, an angry fan yelled at him to “Pick on someone your own size”. The next play he dunked over 6-foot-11 Mel Turpin. As he ran back down the floor, Jordan turned to the heckler and said, “Was he big enough?”

AD1Ag TIL Berliners love the "currywurst", a sausage topped with curry ketchup, so much, that there have been commemorative coins, novels, plays and movies honoring its invention. By tradition, every candidate for mayor must be photographed in front of a currywurst stand.

69WnX TIL that boxer Oliver McCall’s actions against opponent Lennox Lewis (including crying, walking around the ring, and refusing to fight) in 1997, that he was deemed mentally ill and sent to a psychiatric ward after the match.

P1LBw TIL Edith Cowan, best known as the first Australian woman to serve as a member of parliament, lived a life of tragedy as a child. Her mother died when she was seven. At the age of 15, her father, Kenneth Brown, was executed for the murder of her stepmother, making her an orphan.

BkwD TIL that in 1968, the first instance on US television of physical contact between a black man (Harry Bellafonte) and a white woman (Petula Clark, who took hold of his arm when signing) made it to the screen only because Clark and her husband, destroyed all the takes where the contact did not occur.