Post * wod5W — Curious Curator

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TIL There are Benjamin Button children -- only about a half dozen of them in the world, who age only one year for every four in the life of a normal human. Their chromosomes are normal, but they all have cognitive deficiencies

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QN8LX TIL that in 2014, Diren Dede, a foreign exchange student from Hamburg, Germany, was shot and killed after he had went into the garage of Markus Kaarma, a landowner who was facing burglaries so frequently that he had set up a camera and left the garage door open to try to catch the thief.

P1anE TIL that 4 US presidents - Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland and William McKinley, all worked for the same company, which is still alive today and listed on Nasdaq

xVoK5 TIL before the Miss USA beauty pageant, there existed a "Mrs America" which chose an annual best wife, based on cooking, sewing, ironing skills, as well as personality and looks

GY1dN TIL that the United States avoided the thalidomide tragedy because FDA inspector Frances Kelsey blocked its approval based on lack of safety data despite pressure from her FDA supervisors and the pharmaceutical company. Meanwhile, 10,000 thalidomide babies were born in Europe, Australia, and Japan

b6yo0 TIL David Koresh, leader of religious cult Branch Davidians, was infatuated with American pop singer Madonna and claimed that God himself sent Madonna to Earth for him.