Post * AD61B — Curious Curator

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TIL there is no such thing as "South Detroit". "South Detroit would be Windsor, ON, Canada.

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WkKpY TIL quokkas don’t throw their babies at predators like the rumors said. Instead, the mothers will make their kids lay writhing and hissing on the ground to attract predators (while they escape)

4M16 TIL that a Roman merchant who sold fake jewels was sentenced to face a lion in the arena. When the gate finally opened, a chicken walked out. Emperor Gallienus proclaimed “He practiced deceit and then had it practiced on him.”

R7dKl TIL: In 2010 a man was sentenced to 2 years for stabbing a man who knifed him in Counter Strike. He spent 6 months tracking down his rival's real life location. The judge called him a "menace to society"

dd8K TIL there’s a show called “IKEA Heights” that is filmed entirely in an IKEA without the stores permission

NjwP TIL (When looking back at how big France has played apart in American history) Congress wore black and mourning badges for 30 days after Lafayette’s death, the same treatment Washington got.