Post * 4XrdR — Curious Curator

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TIL after Ylvis got famous with 'What Does The Fox Say?', they wrote a song for their younger brother to sing about how much less famous he was than them. Savage.

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YjPd TIL Flags are lowered to half-staff to make room for the invisible flag of Death

yVA8v TIL in 1989 a man bought a painting for $4 at a flea market mostly because he liked the frame. He discovered a document behind the canvas. It was an official copy of the first printing of the Declaration of Independence. Only 23 were known to exist. He sold it at auction for $2.42 million in 1991.

PdAL TIL that whilst left-handed and right-handed people have similar IQ scores, people who identify as ambidextrous have significantly lower levels - particularly in arithmetic, memory and reasoning. The exact reason for this is unknown.

6EK4Q TIL that Suzy Favor Hamilton, multiple time US champion and Olympic competitor in running, later worked as an escort prostitute, due to misdiagnosed bipolar disorder. After this was publicised, an award for Female Athlete of the Year named in her honour was renamed, and she lost her Nike sponsorship

nW4o7 TIL serial killer John Wayne Gacy lived and worked at a mortuary in Las Vegas years before committing murder. While employed at the mortuary, Gacy would talk to the corpses, take off their clothes, and on one occasion he slept in a coffin with a dead teenage boy.