Post * 6DMQ — Curious Curator

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TIL Of children born in Mexican prisons, who live with their mothers and have never experienced the outside world.

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wLGPY TIL due to a folk belief that people born in certain years have bad personalities, the birth rate in Japan dropped by 30% from 1965 to 1966, and recovered completely in 1967.

Zpgpp TIL that Neil Patrick Harris didn't know he was in ‘Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle’ until he heard about it from a friend who auditioned for the film

Z4dR TIL that in 1847, a doctor performed an amputation in 25 seconds, operating so quickly that he accidentally amputated his assistant’s fingers as well. Both later died of sepsis, and a spectator reportedly died of shock, resulting in the only known procedure with a 300% mortality rate.

DQLeJ TIL the town of Honiton, UK has a "Hot Penny Day" a recreation of a 13th century tradition where wealthy people would heat pennies on the stove, throw them into the streets and laugh at the poor people who picked them up.

epAX6 TIL that US aircraft carriers John F. Kennedy (CV-67) and Kitty Hawk (CV-63), which cost the modern-day equivalent of US$2.5 billion each when built, were both sold to scrap merchants in 2021 for the price of a penny.