Post * 0w7JL — Curious Curator

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TIL that Ireland has only one theme park and it's made by a potato chip company.

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9Y5g7 TIL that a Spanish town mailed dog poop back to offenders. A team of volunteers looked for careless dog owners and struck up conversations to learn the dog's name, which made it possible to identify the owner via pet records and mail back the poop, labeled "Lost Property." Violations dropped by 70%.

woomY TIL about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, wherein 146 garment workers died because of the factory owners’ decision to keep all exit doors locked to prevent theft and unauthorized breaks. The owners of the company survived and made roughly $400 per worker due to the insurance payout.

J1mej TIL the origin of the name of Mount "Pilatus", overseeing Lucerne in Switzerland, has been a matter of debate and theories, which include Pontius Pilate being buried there or that the mountain looks like the belly of a large man/Pilate lying on his back.

WkDML TIL that in 1937 Fred Morrison got inspiration to create a plastic flying disc after initially throwing a pie pan from the Frisbie Pie Company. Twenty years later, the disc was named a Frisbee, as a nod to the pie company.

e0YbJ TIL Chiquita, the banana company, orchestrated and paid for a massacre known as the "Banana Massacre" in Colombia in 1928