Post * 49Zg — Curious Curator

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TIL That in 2011, a man killed his wife in a Walmart she worked at. Instead of closing the store, Walmart just roped off the part of the store covered in blood.

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GEv7 TIL the Parthenon is in such bad condition because occupying Turkish forces used it as a powder magazine which exploded when hit by a Venetian shell in 1687.

9YbaM TIL:In 2005, 51% of graduating students at BYU were already married

Qg79 TIL in 1966 Playboy sent a black journalist to interview George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party. “He took out a pearl-handled revolver, placed it pointedly on the arm of his chair, sat back and spoke for the first time: ‘I’m ready if you are.’”

b6pZ7 TIL The sliding door dates back to atleast the 1st century CE with archeological evidence found in Pompeii.

e09DL TIL Alex, a talking parrot with vocabulary of around 100 words, died at age of 31, his last words being very heartwarming (More info in article!)