Post * x6ay7 — Curious Curator

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[TIL] That there is a timelapse of a life from newlyweds to an elderly woman living alone in We Didn't Start the Fire.

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DQ9ZY TIL of Masabumi Hosono, who was the only Japanese passenger on the Titanic. While he survived, he was severely condemned in the United States and Japan. His account of the sinking of Titanic remains the only document to be written on Titanic stationery

xZLo TIL that British political sitcom The Thick of It had a ‘swearing consultant’ who would add more imaginative bad language to the scripts

0dOJy TIL James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale exercised influence over "rotten" boroughs like Cockermouth and had an affair with a tenant upon whose death he refused burial and placed her decaying corpse in a glass-topped coffin in a cupboard. He was often called "the Earl of Toadstool" or "Wicked Jimmy."

MkRA TIL the witness Protection Program has never had a breach of security in which a protected person or family member was harmed.

EgMG0 TIL Velveeta cheese was one of the first foods to get the American Medical Association's approval. In 1931 the AMA cited that Velveeta's nutritional value built "firm flesh"