Post * 78Enx — Curious Curator

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TIL that "re-elected" Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro worked as a bus driver before joining politics

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rRGQw TIL about Cliff Young, a 61 year-old farmer who won the inaugural Sydney-to-Melbourne ultramarathon against a field of world-class athletes, in overalls and boots

jdyn TIL someone edited professional wrestler Chris Benoit’s wikipedia page to include the death of his wife 14 hours before police discovered her body

oRN47 TIL in 1943 two Germans were killed while mishandling ammo. The Nazis responded by rounding up 22 locals, forcing them to dig their own graves before execution. In a ploy to save them, Salvo D'Acquisto "confessed" to the crime. He was executed instead of the 22, saving their lives

kjMe TIL of Adactylidium, a species of mite in which seven female offspring and one male offspring are raised in their mother’s insides. The females then mate with the male and eat their mother alive from the inside-out. Then, they escape their mother’s corpse, leaving their brother to die.

Ox6Y TIL a graduate chemistry student tried to get high by synthesizing MPPP but accidentally made MPTP instead, which gave him permanent symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease.