Post * E1WmX — Curious Curator

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TIL - The world's most dangerous race takes place on the 'ISLE OF MAN' (260 deaths)

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wL4wY TIL the term "Byzantine Empire" only came about a century after the Empire had fallen; the Byzantines called themselves Romans, and others called them Greeks

ZGBQ TIL 10% of China’s cooking oil comes from the gutter by recycling sewage. This oil is illegal and dangerous but extremely lucrative for the sellers who can make as much as a well-paid white-collar worker.

b9aJ0 TIL Dyess AFB in Texas is named for William E. Dyess, an Air Corps pilot and survivor of the Bataan Death March. During a training exercise, his airplane's engine caught fire. Rather than bailing over a populated area, Dyess crashed his aircraft into an empty field. His decision cost him his life.

ne5Y9 TIL that millions of years ago, antarctica used to be a temperate rainforest

gr949 TIL women who have their first full-term pregnancy at an early age have a decreased risk of developing breast cancer later in life