Post * wLxj8 — Curious Curator

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TIL that KFC released a romance novel written by Col. Sanders called "Tender Wings of Desire"

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oBZ5o TIL Vince Coleman, a railway dispatcher, sacrificed his life in order to warn an incoming train of an imminent explosion. His telegraph said "Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbor making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys." He saved 300 lives.

pZde TIL an Indian man named Jadav Payeng started planting trees on a barren sandbar at 17. He is now 47 and lives in his own 1360 acre forest which now houses rhinos, tigers, deers, apes and elephants.

p8Ka4 TIL Siegel and Shuster created Kryptonite in 1940, in an unpublished Superman story 3 years before it appeared on the radio show. DC Comics rejected the story because among other things Superman revealed his secret identity to Lois, causing their relationship to change and upsetting the status quo.

RPd6 TIL that during one particular Rolling Stones concert, four people were killed but the overall population of the concert did not change since four babies were born during the concert as well.

Xb5P TIL a man proposing to his girlfriend at a restaurant was interrupted by a robber who broke into the restaurant. He put the robber in a chokehold when he tried to flee, knocking him out. Then the man went back to the original task at hand and proposed to his girlfriend. No big deal.