Post * mkNy — Curious Curator

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TIL that there is a British man named Sir Nicholas Winston who organized the rescue of 669 Jews from Czechoslovakia during the Second World War. He is still alive today at 105 years old and was dubbed the “British Schindler.”

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X0DRP TIL because of his painkiller addiction, Matthew Perry doesn't remember seasons three to six of 'Friends'

9Ynrm TIL in 1979 the company Shell pressed a release of The Beatles' album Help! with the Shell logo added on the cover and gave the records to their managers and staff.

neRZd TIL that in 2013 The Food Safety Authority of Ireland tested cheap frozen beefburgers and ready meals from supermarket and It found horse DNA in over one-third of the beefburger samples, and pig in 85% of them.

E1nbV TIL Rosa Parks didn't actually refuse to sit in the back of the bus. She was sitting in the back of the bus but refused to give up her seat in the "colored section" to a white passenger, after the whites-only section was filled.

rNld1 TIL Thomas Wedders (also known as Thomas Wadhouse) was an 18th-century circus performer who is said to have had the world's longest nose. His nose was allegedly 7.8 inches (20 cm) long. He was born in Yorkshire, England, around 1730 and died around 1780.