Post * nWJGo — Curious Curator

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TIL the HMS Detroit 20-gun sloop was captured in 1813, too damaged to help the war it was sunk for preservation. 20 years later it was refloated and converted for commercial service. 8 years later a purchaser tried to send it over Niagara Falls where it instead broke up on a shoal.

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aw1Yo TIL the first piece of footage Ed Wood ever produced was a shot of the Hindenburg shortly before it crashed

0Plp TIL on April Fool’s 2002, 2 radio DJs suggested Kansas’ water supply was contaminated with “Dihydrogen Monoxyde” (H20), announcing it caused excessive sweating and wrinkled skin. It led to thirty 911 calls, water officials comparing it to a terrorist act, and both DJs being suspended indefinitely.

9wNN7 TIL that, in the 1940s, Coca-Cola produced a clear version of Coke for Soviet officials that looked like vodka so they could drink it in public despite embargoes on American goods

nQMr TIL that in Italy Moana is called Vaiana to avoid confusion with Italian pornstar Moana Pozzi

yQ6xV TIL that Vivendi (the media conglomerate that owns Universal Music Group, Dailymotion, Gameloft, etc.) was founded by decree of emperor Napoleon III in 1853 as a water supply company.