Post * LW6V — Curious Curator

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TIL: A man who was high on meth fought off 15 police officers while masturbating. Even a taser had no effect.

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epDRD TIL that the first apple computer was sold for $666 without mouse and keyboard just a simple assembled circuit board

XEr9X TIL that Morgan Robertson wrote a novel in 1898 about an ocean liner sinking in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg. That is 14 years before the Titanic sunk in the same place and in the same way. And if this was not enough, the novel was titled: "The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility".

8a4XV TIL that a tribe on an island in the Pacific worships Prince Philip as a divine being

e4Mg TIL when an online college in the US jokingly offered, as an April Fools gag, a course called ‘Underwater Basket Weaving’ (a notorious code for a do-nothing class) the school was forced to apologize when they were accused of being disrespectful to indigenous cultures.

Aajw TIL that the fighter squadron with the highest number of kills in the Battle of Britain during WWII were actually from Poland, and showed up two months after the battle had begun.