Post * yJ6X — Curious Curator

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TIL a test pilot for the Boeing 707 airplane prototype performed a roll in front of the audience attending an international airline summit in Seattle. When asked what he was doing by his boss, he replied “selling airplanes.”

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oJOE TIL in 2010, when Tokyo officials went to congratulate the oldest man in the city on his 111th birthday, they instead found his skeletal remains on his bed. He had been dead for 30 years and the family was taking in the pension money he was still receiving.

w9bJ TIL the Smokey Bear Statute of 1952 is a real federal statute, complete with rules like no wisecracking in the Smokey Bear costume.

awQ99 TIL that a Scottish lady, Joy Milne, is able to detect Parkinsons' prior to formal diagnosis and has helped scientists understand the development of the disease

djDB TIL the First Aid Kit was invented for railroad surgeons who needed sterile equipment to treat their construction workers.

BgELy TIL That Alcohol is considered one of the most harmful recreational substances, lower only than Crack, Heroin, and Meth. But much Higher than LSD, DMT, and MDMA.