Post * KYJw9 — Curious Curator

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TIL that firefighters in rural Tennessee let a home burn to the ground in 2010 because the homeowner hadn’t paid a $75 fee.

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j6wov TIL the phrase "That's a spicy meatball!" is actually from a 1960's Alka Seltzer commercial

b6DlQ TIL that a popular brand of stage blood is actually mint-flavored.

ldyN TIL our closest animal relative, the Bonobo, is a bisexual species where 60% of sexual encounters are threesomes

R7R64 The first modern crematory was built in the U.S. in 1876. A second came eight years later. By 1900, there were 20. The practice got another boost in 1963 when the Catholic Church reversed its opinion on cremation during the Vatican II reforms and said cremation was permitted (though ash scattering was not). Four decades ago, less than 5 percent of American were cremated when they died. Now that figure stands at nearly half.

7rJoZ TIL that, although the Soho district in NYC was named hundreds of years after the Soho district in London, only NYC's Soho is a functional abbreviation (South of Houston St.) while London's Soho was likely named for a hunting call.