Post * 7ymX — Curious Curator

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TIL Iran’s 1979 Revolution was initially carried out by an alliance of Islamist, socialist, and liberal democratic groups; it was only after Khomeini consolidated power and purged his former allies that it was declared an “Islamic Revolution”

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jNX0j TIL that Bob Munden was known as “the fastest man with a gun who ever lived". He could draw, fire, break a balloon target with a blank using a standard weight single-action revolver and return his gun to his holster faster than the blink of an eye

xVpBo TIL that a 17 year old sold his kidney for a iPhone and iPad in 2011 and is now bedridden for life

x6Lbo TIL: That grey foxes are one of two species in the canid family that can climb trees. They have rotating wrists and can climb as well as squirrels.

v4ED TIL A woman set up a group called “I Need Sex” on facebook which attracted 100 men, 50 of whom she slept with.

WEE9 TIL that of the 100+ people to die in the building of the Hoover Dam, the first and last to perish were a father and son who plummeted to their death 13 years to the day apart.