Post * 5enp — Curious Curator

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TIL dog bites have risen 59% since Cesar Millan started airing on Television

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N7Eeb TIL that over 1 million people are buried on a small island in NY. Hart Island has been home to a confederate prison, asylum and “boys reformatory” dating as far back as 1869. Many of New York’s most vulnerable have found their way to this island and are laid in mass graves 3 caskets deep.

rN5Oe TIL the music behind the anti-piracy warning (you wouldn't steal a car etc) was stolen from the person who wrote it, Melchior Rietveldt, who sued for royalties owed

oR17 TIL that the term “Bus” is short for “Omnibus,” which was actually a reference to “Omnes Omnibus,” which was the name of the hatter shop located next to the first bus station, which was in turn a Latin pun on the name of the owner, Omnès.

VLLp TIL of Disco Sally, a geriatric widowed grandmother who became a fixture of NYC’s legendary Studio 54.

0Q0M TIL Paul McCartney once spent 10 days in jail in Japan after he smuggled half a pound of weed into the country. He said it was “the daftest thing” he’d ever done, but the weed was too good to flush.