Post * 1a0RV — Curious Curator

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TIL Tyler the chimp that attacked a lady's face, had xanax in his system.

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4XZO5 TIL that the UK invaded Iceland on May 10, 1940, fearing that the Germans would invade it first. Despite a shortage of weapons, an only partially trained force of 746 newly activated Marines, and a lack of surprise, the British were victorious. No one was injured, except for one UK suicide.

8ldK TIL a full suit of plate armour weighs less than a modern fire fighters oxygen gear

788Ox TIL that an FBI informant secretly wore a wire to breakfast with a city official suspected of bribery, and met the suspect at the WTC Marriott. In the middle of getting a confession, the informant ends up making what is believed to be the only uninterrupted audio recording of the Sept. 11 attack.

5mVB TIL The weight of insects eaten by spiders every year is greater than the total weight of the entire human population

ADGdl TIL The notion of an "objective" media was a commercial product that only evolved in the late 1800s as newspapers shifted from partisan to nonpartisan in order to attract larger audiences from both parties and to sell these readers’ attention to advertisers.