Post * JJRV — Curious Curator

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TIL in 2013 a motorist argued that driving with corporation papers in his front seat allowed him the right to drive in a carpool lane. He ended up paying a $478 fine.

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0wVnM TIL - In 2019 Turkey set a world record by planting 11 million tree saplings; 3 months later, 90% were dead because they had been planted in the wrong season, and there hadn't been enough rain that year to support them.

70Ar TIL a stray dog followed a Swedish racing team through the Amazonian jungles and rivers to complete a 430-mile (688 km) race, just because one of the team members had given it a meat ball during one of the earlier halts.

rNWJ1 TIL about the Forty Elephants or Forty Thieves, an all women crime syndicate in London in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that specialized in shoplifting and pretending to be maids and robbing the wealthy families who hired them.

8e8x8 TIL the American Chestnut Tree was king of the Eastern U.S. forests that could grow 120ft (36.5m) tall and 16ft (4.9m) across until a blight arrived in 1904. It took only 40 short years for the disease to bring to extinction the estimated 4 billion ancient giants towering from Georgia to Maine.

A64B TIL after the citizenship of the Virginia Tech shooter became known, South Korea’s ambassador to the U.S. called on Korean Americans to participate in a 32 day fast, one for each victim, as repentance.