Post * m1g8p — Curious Curator

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TIL: In the 2020's there have been 4 incidents where a commercial airliner was shot down with munitions. Between 2000 and 2020 there were a total of 5 incidents.

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wL1nP TIL The search to recover debris from the Challenger disaster in 1986 also resulted in the discovery of 13 shipwrecks, two lost airplanes and 25 kilos of cocaine

QJL79 TIL London Underground workers gained concessions from management through a 'piss strike,' meaning they followed safety rules so exactly that workers going to the toilet one after the other essentially shut down any work being done.

KYM7Q TIL Between 1921 and 1932 three Japanese Prime Ministers were assassinated by Rightwing members of Japanese society

Xb7k TIL: One of the oldest and most effective asthma meds, Albuterol, was $15 per inhaler in 2000, now after it was re-patented it is $100.

rR5je TIL that, in 1838, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story in which four shipwreck survivors were forced to eat a cabin boy named Richard Parker. 46 years later, the situation was mirrored uncannily in real life, as four shipwreck survivors were forced to eat a cabin boy named Richard Parker.