Post * xVWdD — Curious Curator

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TIL The bird attacks on Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" was based upon an actual event and scientists now know it was because the birds were poisoned.

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9wyNM TIL about Jackie Mitchell, the 17 year old girl who struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig back-to-back in a 1931 exhibition game

8a6PZ TIL that in 1971, burglars broke into an FBI office by writing a note that said “Please don’t lock this door tonight” and plastering it onto the front door. It worked and they stole several files.

nnr9 TIL - There is a garden in Alnwick England which is dedicated entirely to flora which are deadly and/or narcotic

WM4L TIL Smell is copyrightable, including soaps, perfume, and cologne.

DMAg TIL the first US Warship to be named after a black man was named in 1943 for sailor Leonard Roy Harmon. Harmon worked serving food to officers, one of the few jobs available to black sailors. At the battle of Guadalcanal, however, Harmon deliberately exposed himself to enemy fire to save a shipmate.