Post * 69yAX — Curious Curator

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TIL There is a museum in Iceland focused only on Penises.

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5VmNR TIL Americans donate the largest amount of money to charity as percent of GDP by a large margin

j690E TIL that Ford's Theater, where Lincoln was killed, is not original, but a 100% re-creation on the original site.

a8NPA TIL Aussie universities are so dependent on income from international students that they turned failing grades into pass grades and a student graduated with such poor English that a nurse misfed a patient dishwashing liquid because he couldn't read the label on the bottle.

PYewJ TIL Lincoln originally invited Ulysses S. Grant and his wife to the Ford Theater. Grant accepted, but later backed out because their wives' hated each other. If Grant had gone, his security detail would likely have prevented Lincoln's assassination.

VL9p TIL the Van Halen song “Panama” was written because critics accused David Lee Roth of writing about only partying, sex, and cars. Roth realized he had never written a song about cars, so he wrote Panama.