Post * n9JY — Curious Curator

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TIL that there are only three countries that havent ratified the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child. They are Somalia, South Sudan, and the United States of America.

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Lk9Ep TIL that George Gershwin was in psychoanalytic therapy for several years for “aberrant” behavior, olfactory hallucinations, loss of coordination while eating, and severe headaches, and it wasn’t until he died that they figured out he had a brain tumor.

PaNO TIL Japan has a network of roads that play music as you drive over them at the correct speed

P1bdJ TIL that the Norden Bombsight used by US Bomber aircraft in WWII cost $1.1 billion to research and produce, about half as much as the Manhattan Project and over a quarter of the cost of all B-17 bombers manufactured. While successfully precise in Stateside testing it was far less accurate in combat.

KYZdR TIL in an attempt to assassinate Hitler, a Nazi officer hid two time bombs in his jacket and led Hitler on a tour of a museum. Hitler raced through the museum and left before the bombs exploded, so the officer had to rush to the bathroom where he defused the bombs "at the last second."

jN6Ea TIL that Paul Elliot of the Chuckle brothers was in a motorcycle crash while on holiday. Instead of helping him, tourists who stopped at the accident shouted the Chuckle Brothers' catchphrase, "To me, to you".