Post * 78xop — Curious Curator

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TIL a woman in Brazil was killed by a falling cow that crashed through her roof while she was sleeping. The cow survived. She didn’t.

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v1Dxx TIL that footballers Olivier Giroud and Presnel Kimpembe voiced the Green Goblin and Scorpion in the French dub of Spiderman: New Generation

loPwB TIL that if you are sentenced to death in Japan, once your final appeal is exhausted you execution date is kept secret until the morning it happens.

e19k TIL the word Shampoo is derived from the Hindi word ‘chāmpo’ which in turn is derived from the Sanskrit root 'chapayati’ meaning: “to press, knead and soothe”

GYk95 TIL that Gandhi wrote 2 letters to Hitler, one a month before the war and one in during it, both of which were intercepted by the British and never made it to Hitler.

6BGX TIL that there is a court that “meets in secret, hears only the arguments of the government prior to deciding a case and its rulings cannot be appealed or even reviewed by the public” that is responsible for ruling when the government can spy on its citizens.