Post * ADyB4 — Curious Curator

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TIL Michael Jackson imagined and recorded the demo of 'Beat it' only by using his voice and layering tracks together before sending it to the producer.

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N77eM TIL of a man who killed 57 people on a spree that lasted 8 hours after his girlfriend woke up him by swatting a fly on his chest.

MYlW TIL For over three years a poor, illiterate Peruvian farmworker Maxima Acuña de Chaupe withstood violent eviction attempts, beatings and a legal battle to allow Colorado’s Newmont Mining Corporation to turn her land into an open-pit gold mine.

ADxXo TIL of the Talheim Death Pit, a mass grave dating to 5000BC, containing the remains of 34 bodies, bearing some of the earliest evidence of habitual warfare, including fatal adze, axe and arrow wounds to the back of the head. It has been suggested that this site represents an early form of genocide.

LKr9 TIL In 1973, the US government stopped research into thorium based nuclear reactors as, unlike Uranium reactors, their byproducts could not be used to make nuclear weapons

Me7r7 Unpredictable extremes of weather could be a huge problem. Simon N. Gosling, a geographer at the University of Nottingham in England, and Robert E. Davis of the University of Virginia agree that hotter weather on average isn't as dangerous as unexpected weather. A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in April looked at how temperature fluctuations over a single summer affect mortality in vulnerable populations.