Post * D9dv — Curious Curator

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TIL after Hurricane Ike, Comcast customers were billed as much as $1000 for unreturned equipment like DVRs that had been destroyed by the hurricane.

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dD497 TIL That knitting was used as an espionage tool during WWI.

yQVgv TIL that Sir Richard Branson dislikes the formality of neck ties so much that he often carries around a pair of scissors with him, ready to cut the ties off of unsuspecting tie wearers. He even has a cushion that he keeps at his home on Necker Island made up from the ties of some of his victims.

9wL0X Today I learned cows are 20 times deadlier than sharks

wLDGJ TIL that George Orwell, the author of 1984 and Animal Farm, was actually a pseudonym for author Eric Arthur Blair.

a8JbM TIL a death row inmate in Tennessee discovered there were untested fingerprints that had been found at the original crime scene. In a last-ditch effort to prove his innocence, he successfully petitioned the courts to run the tests. They were found to be his own fingerprints.