Post * w7m8 — Curious Curator

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TIL that Thailand is the second most common place for American tourists to die abroad, after Mexico.

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yRKp TIL - After Edison died Nikola Tesla wrote a negative obituary in the NYT - made fun of his hygiene and work ethic

96Wp TIL in circuses, the Sousa march “The Stars and Stripes Forever” is played by bands to alert workers to a life-threatening emergency, and to expedite removing the audience. It is never a part of regular circus music programs for this reason.

N7VQE TIL that after he was shot down and captured by the USSR in 1960, CIA pilot Gary Powers tried not to share intelligence with the KGB, but he was hampered by western press. A KGB major stated "there's no reason for you to withhold information. We'll find it out anyway. Your press will give it to us."

d8j4Z TIL that in 2001 a New York couple used a submersible to be married two and a half miles underwater, on the wreck of the Titanic

GArnj TIL after frontier bandit Big Nose George was lynched from a telephone pole, a doctor turned his skin into shoes, a medical bag, and a coin purse. That same doctor was later elected Governor of Wyoming and wore the skin shoes to his inauguration.