Post * vxJD — Curious Curator

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TIL: A human heart of a coke user can keep beating outside your body for 25 minutes

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VmN8 TIL that the Eiffel Tower was originally meant to be taken down in 1909, but the French kept it to use as a radio tower during World War I

jNNrp TIL that in 1919, William Little, an African American soldier who fought in World War I, was lynched because he refused to take off his uniform when he got back home to Blakey, Georgia.

94o7 TIL that the reason all of Christopher Nolan’s movies have a blue/brown tint to them is because he directs around his red-green colorblindness.

PYneV TIL The ratio of people using email for fun versus those using it for work has flipped since the 1990s. Many people nowadays dread email "because it is a conduit for unwanted advertising, a wide range of spam, and flat out attempts to scam or ‘phish’ us”

EWNo TIL: of Willem Arondeus, a Homosexual Dutch anti-Nazi fighter who bombed the Amsterdam Public Records Office to hinder the Nazi identification of Jews. He was arrested & executed. His last words were, “Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards.”