Post * 8PA8 — Curious Curator

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TIL that the Tappan Zee Bridge, on which 140,000 people drive daily, is so structurally unsound that New York state aides refer to it as the “hold-your-breath bridge” while other experts call it the “scariest of scaries”

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bDYj TIL on Dec 25th (Christmas), a town in Peru celebrates ‘Takanakuy’. Men, women and children settle grudges from the past year with a fist fight in the town center. After the fight, fighters will drink alcohol to numb the pain and bring in the New Year.

nNn9 TIL Gili Trawangan, a small mainly Muslim Island that is harsh on alcohol, openly and legally sells and consumes Magic Mushrooms on a regular basis in Milkshakes and eaten like potato chips

kJkdB TIL Sir Admiral "Blinker" Hall became the UK's Director of Naval Intelligence—a desk job—and played an outsize role in getting the United States into World War I because commanding ships made him seasick.

nWnyB TIL of the 9th century poet al-Khubzârruzi "the rice-bread baker". He could nor read nor write, customers would come to his bakery to hear him recite his poems.

mRXR TIL There’s an episode of Married with Children that Fox refused to air. The plot revolved around Al/Peg making a sex tape and Marcy/Steve making a sex tape. The episode was produced in 1988 but did not air for the first time until cable syndication in 2002. Even now, the reruns are heavily edited.