Post * yQY1p — Curious Curator

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TIL that there is a man who needs to drink 20 liters of water a day or else he will die from dehydration.

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LDb9 TIL there is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans

p8XXG TIL the Statue of Liberty's eleven-pointed star pedestal is the remains of Fort Wood, originally one link in a chain of defenses protecting New York City and its vital harbor.

W7eo TIL As late as the seventeenth nannies in Europe gave young boys hand jobs as an efficient way to put them to sleep

Wkm9d TIL of Rhea Clyman, a Jewish Canadian Journalist who travelled to the Soviet Union and made reports on the Siberian labor camps and the Holodomor. This led to her deportation in 1933 after which she reported on Nazi Germany until 1938 when she was forced to flee due to growing anti Semitism.

m1N6Y TIL that on April 23 1953 Dwight D Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10450 which banned homosexuals from working for the federal government or any of its private contractors. An estimated 5000-10,000 people lost their jobs because of this policy, now known as the "lavender scare".