Post * 7RR7 — Curious Curator

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TIL that until the 17th or 18th century, 880 lb birds lived in Madagascar. They were called Elephant Birds and were over ten feet tall.

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gM6X4 TIL Korean college students once protested against the amount of air in potato chip packets by building a raft out of them and sailing across a river.

APro TIL That in 1894 there was the “Great Horse-Manure Crisis” in New York City and London. Where some envisioned that in 50 years time the streets of London would be buried under 9 feet of horse manure. The problem was solved with the invention of the automobile.

BreoL TIL Time magazine has a list of the 50 worst inventions of all time, which includes the segway, new coke, and crocs

X0DG6 TIL One day before the end of WW2, the German Cruise Liner, SS Cap Arcona was attacked and sunk by the RAF. The ship was used to hold concentration camp prisoners and 5000 were killed. Swedish intelligence had passed this information to the allies but it wasn't forwarded to the RAF.

NXnmb TIL that there are only two escelators in the entire state of Wyoming in the United States. The most recent of them was built in 1979. Both of them are also located in bank buildings for Hilltop National Bank and First Interstate Bank in the states second most populous city of Casper.