Post * LQOn0 — Curious Curator

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TIL that Mark DeFriest, known as the Houdini of Florida, is a prisoner in the Florida State Prison. His original four-year sentence has since developed into 34 years for 13 escape attempts, 7 of them successful, and hundreds of disciplinary reports.

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mrEo TIL that pre-Incan people are still living on man-made floating islands of grass, as they have for hundreds of years, on lake Titicaca

E1ZZ0 TIL of the events of Black Monday, 1360. On the first night of the Siege of Chartres the English army, lead by Edward III were camped outside the city walls. In half an hour a freak hailstorm, accompanied by freezing rain, killed nearly 1,000 English soldiers and around 6,000 of their horses.

4Xbjg TIL that the song "Eenie Meenie Miney Mo" was not originally written with the word "tiger" in it but something much more offensive

5Vndp TiL the little red-haired girl, Charlie Brown's crush, was based off a woman that Charles Schulz courted who ultimately married a different suitor. Schulz described it as an "emotionally damaging" event. "What a bitter blow that is. A blow to everything that you are."

7k1X TIL: Walruses don’t use their tusks to dig for food, they use their lips to dig for food. Their tusks are used to poke holes in the ice so they can pull themselves out of the water.