Post * 7rv4p — Curious Curator

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TIL that in 1995, a man received a "check" for $95,000 as junk mail. Jokingly, he deposited it into his account. The "check" met all of the legal criteria for a check and was cashed.

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J1pMV TIL the first botanical garden in the U.S. was established in New York City in 1801. By the late 1800’s the garden was abandoned, and in the 1920’s it became the site of Rockefeller Center.

1L0X TIL that Shakira was once banned from her school choir because according to her music teacher, she couldn’t sing and sounded like a goat.

0wWrL TIL a teen injected himself with mercury at least three times in an attempt to convert his bones to metal after seeing X-Men Origins: Wolverine. He also had intentional multiple spider bites in the past after wanting to become Spider-Man.

vD9j TIL that Silbury Hill, a man-made structure almost as old as the Great Pyramid, but built in Britain, covers an enormous area equal to more than four football fields. But historians are still not sure about its purpose.

Z8V9a TIL a Giant Pacific octopus named Billye learnt to open childproof pill bottles. She could execute the push-and-turn trick - without any instruction - in an average time of five minutes.