Post * x5b — Curious Curator

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TIL: Ayn Rand’s intellectual heir earns lots of money based on publishing her unpublished works. Which is essentially, living off the words of another. And not Objectivism.

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log7V TIL that the trenches on the western front of ww1 from the North Sea all the way down to Switzerland were dug in only just over a month in the race to the sea when the allies and central powers kept trying to outflank each other.

eoP5 TIL that in 2009, Rapper Coolio attempted to stage dive. Nobody in the crowd caught him and he was beaten up while also having his shoes stolen.

nn07 TIL the youngest person to graduate with a bachelor’s degree was Michael Kearney, at the age of 10.

OGxO4 TIL: Rachel Wall was the last woman to be hanged in MA in the 1700s. She tricked sailors by screaming for help, when people came to help, her crew would kill them and steal their goods. She was later arrested for trying to rip a girl's tongue out and theft. She requested to be tried as a pirate.

Y7mLd TIL in 1938, Chiang Kai-Shek caused the deadliest manmade flood in history when he intentionally broke the Yellow River dam. While he did succeed in his goal of slowing down the Japanese advance, it ended up killing 400,000-893,303 people in the process.