Post * 9Ya5Q — Curious Curator

› added 4 years ago

1354

TIL Taco Bell has special restaurants labeled cantina that sells alcoholic drinks

Read more

X0Pgj Til that even though it's still illegal, the UK is the largest exporter of weed in the world.

WkMW9 TIL Tipping became popular in the US during the decades following the Civil War, when some US employers began encouraging their customers to tip, thereby avoiding paying African-American employees a decent wage

awj7M TIL when artist Peter Doig, whose work sells for up to $26m, refused to authenticate a piece signed Peter Doige, the owner sued Doig for $5million, claiming that Doig simply didn't want to admit he'd painted it in jail. The court agreed it was not his work.

W70r9 TIL the first film about the Titanic starred an actor who survived the sinking. Dorothy Gibson was playing bridge when the ship hit the iceberg and she escaped on the first lifeboat. She later starred in "Saved from the Titanic", in which she wore the same clothes that she wore on the Titanic.

N77WJ TIL in 2014 a man in South Africa was transporting 2 giraffes in an open trailer. While going under an overpass, one of the giraffes hit its head on the overpass and died, due to head trauma. Thankfully, the other survived.