Post * 78g4p — Curious Curator

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TIL that, until 1564, in France, the year began either at Christmas, on March 25, on March 1 or even at Easter

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N7KvN TIL that an estimated 120,000 prisoners in the United States prison system have been wrongfully incarcerated.

NK91 TIL that a town called Sweetwater, Texas, as well as most of the Southeast, hold a form of a rattlesnake holocaust each year and have been doing so since about 1939.

wL8wY TIL Little Caeser's founder discreetly paid Rosa Parks' rent for 14 years in a nicer area after she was robbed and assaulted in her apartment in a rough area

4pmo TIL that 4 Walmart employees were fired after disarming a man that was caught shoplifting.

QJwd9 TIL An artist recreated 60 pieces of fake art from Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning. Then the art was sold for more than $80 million. 10 lawsuits were filed and a prestigious 165-year-old art gallery was closed once the art was found to be fraudulent.