Post * 5878 — Curious Curator

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TIL that the Windows 10 default background is an actual Image, not digitally created.

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JYMRB TIL of Mr Prawo Jazdy who committed more than 50 traffic offenses and was known to be the worst driving offender in Ireland. An investigation uncovered the fact that Prawo Jazdy is the Polish term for "Driving License"

m10mY TIL, In Nazi Germany Art/Artists categorized as Un-German, Communist or Jewish were labeled as "Degenerate Art". Persons labeled were subjected to fine, dismissal or maybe not have permission to produce art.

9wEXB TIL of the Morecambe Bay cockling disaster, in which 21 Chinese workers smuggled in by a gang died in Morecambe, north-west England after being cut-off and drowned by the incoming tide while harvesting cockles

oXjK TIL a man drove over 600 miles to listen to the Cubs win the World Series on his fathers grave. Keeping his word on a promise made decades ago

oRKEA TIL that donated organs are constantly attacked by the recipient’s immune system, which can age them faster, and that immunosuppressive drugs are needed to avoid rejection and infection.