Post * wLlW7 — Curious Curator

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TIL about Ali Maow Maalin. In 1977 he was diagnosed and later found to be the last known person to be naturally infected with smallpox. He made a full recovery and in the 2000's worked with the WHO on their successful polio eradication campaign in Somalia. He died of malaria in 2013.

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b6DxN TIL that a young John F Kennedy sat in the public gallery of the House of Commons and watched then UK PM (Neville Chamberlain) declare war on Germany in 1939. Churchill also gave a speech which left an impression on JFK.

mwmY TIL Scientists recovered soft tissue and blood vessels from a T. rex dinosaur

x8xB TIL a British intelligence agent was found dead in his apartment, having been stuffed-naked-inside a duffel bag that was padlocked from the outside. A police investigation ruled it an accident

VM0vp TIL Right before the show F.R.I.E.N.D.S premiered, the cast took a group trip to Vegas for one last taste of anonymity. "Once the show comes on the air, you guys will never be able to go anywhere without being hounded," director James Burrows told them, not inaccurately.

awnYy TIL a Chinese man was almost cremated alive after being beaten by police and left for dead… the cremation process was stopped when a medical woker noticed he was still breathing. He was then taken to a hospital where he was beaten again by the police and arrested.