Post * xo5 — Curious Curator

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TIL There is a pen that is able to sanitize any water on earth

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yQk0M TIL that in 1986, a organ transplant aircraft broke down in Fargo resulting in the governor summoning an F-4 Phantom to transport a heart to California for a recipient.

E1ZZ0 TIL of the events of Black Monday, 1360. On the first night of the Siege of Chartres the English army, lead by Edward III were camped outside the city walls. In half an hour a freak hailstorm, accompanied by freezing rain, killed nearly 1,000 English soldiers and around 6,000 of their horses.

dDNv9 TIL Irvin Rosenfeld has received medical marijuana from the government since 1982. He smokes 10-12 joints a day for his bone cancer, and receives a shipment of 300 joints every 25 days. The program was set up by the federal government in 1982 for cancer and glaucoma patients but was later disbanded.

neEBG TIL Eisenhower visited Taiwan in 1960 and an estimated 650,000 people packed into the Presidential Plaza to hear the American president. He lauded President Chiang for his courage and tireless effort in leading the nation in the struggle against inhuman tyranny

grKy7 TIL that a type of Japanese water beetle can, when eaten by a frog, swim through the frog's digestive tract and escape through its anus