Post * 16xX — Curious Curator

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TIL Keyboard Cat died in 1987.

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LdNZ TIL that on 18 May 1990, Jim Swire, who’s daughter died in the Lockerbie bombing, took a fake bomb on board a British Airways from London Heathrow to New York JFK and then on a flight from New York JFK to Boston to show that airline security had not improved.

jNNBn TIL there are between 17,200 and 36,000 rose-ringed parakeets normally native to central Africa living wild in South West London.

4kXlJ TIL that buttons and buttonholes switch sides depending on if they're for males or females. I'm 29.

VMMvG TIL there's an Indian temple where visitors pray for american Visas

NXXKe TIL that the Alt-J album cover “An awesome wave” is a European Space Agency satellite image of the Ganges River Delta in Bangladesh and India and was found by the band when they searched for images related to the word “delta”, the triangle symbol for the band