Post * GYwe5 — Curious Curator

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TIL that Joseph Kony, made infamous by the Kony 2012 documentary, has still never been captured and at this point is no longer being hunted.

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GJbg TIL that Finland is the only country that did not default on its debts from World War One. It continued to pay the United States until the last of its debt was discharged in 1976.

dyB9 TIL there is a Major League Baseball pitcher who retired with an ERA of infinity. He never got an out in his one appearance, letting up seven runs.

JbQk TIL Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ was painted while he was in a mental institution in 1889. Not only that, his painting perfectly captured the scientific phenomenon known as “turbulence” To mathematical precision despite it not being explained via physics in the 1940’s.

6jpw TIL In 1939, the famous and notorious gangster, Al Capone donated two Japanese weeping cherry trees to the former Union Memorial Hospital in return for the excellent treatment and care he was offered and one of the trees still remains and blossoms outside the East 33rd Street entrance each spring.

VBB0Q TIL about Alexis St. Martin who, after not properly healing after being shot in the stomach, was used in experiments for 12 years as doctors could view his digestion in real time through his wound. He lived another 58 years.