Post * GXyQ — Curious Curator

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TIL that when the last woolly mammoths died out, the pyramids of Giza were already a thousand years old

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N7DbN TIL that the larger Pacific striped octopus is one of the only species of octopus that is not cannbalistic during mating, rather the two partners embrace each other intimately with their beaks and suckers, and they live in groups of up to 40 individuals unlike most other solitary species of octopus

xJ7b TIL credit bureaus must respond to disputes within 30 calendar days of filing, or the dispute is removed from a credit report. If a dispute is filed in, say, mid-December, those 30 days include the time the office is closed for the holidays (and the backup created because of that).

6955Z TIL: Multimillionaire Maria Assunta, upon her death left her entire fortune of $13 million, all of her properties such as villas, homes, and land to her cat Tommaso, making the cat one of the world's richest felines. Just a few years prior, Tommaso was a stray cat she found in the streets of Rome.

XdAk TIL Donald Glover was voted “Most Likely to Write for The Simpsons” in high school. In his last year of college, it was a spec script he wrote for The Simpsons that started his career as a writer for 30 Rock.

GyD1 TIL a Croatian man, Frane Selak, escaped death several times throughout the mid-1900s, including (but not limited to) falling out of an airplane, being hit by a bus, and swerving off a road and over a cliff to avoid an auto accident. In 2003, he purchased his first lottery ticket, and won.