Post * v1d98 — Curious Curator

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TIL that Steve Martin has won more Grammy awards for playing banjo than he did for comedy.

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9PbX TIL to clear the streets for President Kennedy’s Inauguration the army used flamethrowers to melt the snow.

a8DJN TIL Mice don’t actually like cheese and are even repelled by many cheeses due to the smell. If they’re hungry enough they’ll try to eat anything, but they won’t actively seek out cheese.

1E7r TIL that the alternative history novel “The Man in the High Castle” features a “novel within a novel”. While the actual book is about Nazis winning WWII, the in-book novel is about an alternate universe in which the Nazis lose the war.

LAKP TIL Gin and Tonics were created by the British Army to help fight Malaria in India. Quinine, the medicine that fought Malaria, tasted so bad gin was used to make the medicine more drinkable.

8axDV TIL that during WWI, no foreign coaling stations were available to Germany, and its coast was blockaded. So the Germans outfitted a sailing ship as a commerce raider and disguised it as a Norwegian woodcarrier - it sailed past the British blockade and captured 15 ships over the next two years.