Post * 7rWeP — Curious Curator

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TIL Serbian wedding guests accidentally downed a small plane with celebratory gunfire in 2003

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xVPLk TIL There's a Future Library in Norway being created where trees have just been planted, and authors of today were asked to write something to be read in 100 years. When the trees have grown in a century they'll be used to print the books, and only then, will be made for all to read.

P1Qyg TIL about a man under the pseudonym "Kirk Allen" who became deluded that a sci-fi book series was actually the story of his life. He filled in the blanks with elaborate details and hallucinated himself in those settings. He was treated by Robert Lindner, who himself became obsessed with the books.

yyyl TIL that, in Russian Roulette, a properly lubricated and maintained revolver has a higher chance of not firing the bullet, because gravity pulls the loaded chamber down, if it is allowed to stop on its own.

p8vEG TIL I Don't Care was the name of a long distance telephone company started to capture 3% of the market of people who responded they didn't care which carrier was used.

Zpp4o TIL Dublin, Ireland, was once the Viking Kingdom of "Dyflin", founded by the Norse in the 9th century. "Dubh Linn" means "black pool" in Irish. Under their rule, Dublin became the biggest slave port in Western Europe. The last king of Dublin was killed by the Norman conquerors in 1171.