Post * p8gE4 — Curious Curator

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TIL Janet Jackson was banned from MTV, VH1, and the Grammy's when Justin Timberlake tore her top on stage, but he was not.

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Apj4 TIL one of the fastest speeds ever achieved on the German Autobahn was 432kph (268mph) in a Mercedes-Benz W125, in the year 1938.

LPNV TIL: In the late 1700s, a French soldier named Tarrare was subject to medical experiments to test his eating capacity. He ate a meal for 15 people in one sitting, live cats, snakes, lizards and puppies, and swallowed an eel whole without chewing. He was ejected from the hospital after eating a baby.

woKoW TIL that Bobby Leach, the second ever man to go over the Niagara Falls in a barrel, died a few years later after slipping on an orange peel and getting a wound on his leg that would soon become Gangrenous. Although the leg was soon amputated, he died two months later due to complications.

9wJnQ TIL Of the great oxydation event: a single type of oxygen producing bacteria is responsible for terraforming earth from largely oxygen free to the earth we know today, giving rise to oxygen based life and causing a mass extinction of anaerobic life forms, wiping out about 80% of them

nW86B TIL most Little Rascals episodes from the 1930s were heavily edited in the 1970s to remove jokes about race, women, disabilities, children, the elderly, and violence.