Post * rRppM — Curious Curator

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TIL That a dog named Stella was taught how to communicate using buttons , while each button serves as a different voice line.

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j6J7j TIL that US military pilots were not allowed parachutes in World War I because it was believed they would be too quick to abandon their planes at the first sign of danger.

WRad TIL the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the WHO, the U.K. Royal Society, the French Academy of Sciences, and the EC have all concluded that GMO crops pose NO risk to human health. No case of human illness or allergy has ever been directly attributed to genetically modified crops.

DBjp TIL the Civil War had Nazi-like prison camps. In one of the worst, a one legged man, trying to escape being victimized by other prisoners, was shot in the face and chest, only to lay outside the prison walls suffering until he died the next day.

8eNoG TIL 14,000 years ago we had a south star called Vega, as opposed to our current north star Polaris. Vega will realign as our south star again in 12,000 years.

R7g9w TIL that John and Clarence Anglin, who escaped from Alcatraz in 1962, reportedly attended their mother’s funeral in women’s clothes.