Post * LkBdP — Curious Curator

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TIL when polygamist cult leader Rulon Jeffs died in 2002, 18 of his 20 wives married his son Warren Jeffs within a week's time.

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wJZ8 TIL Iran tried to get into the Guinness book of world records by making the worlds largest sandwich. But people started eating it before it could be officially measured so they failed.

R7KX8 today i learned that there is a genus of plants in the Aizoaceae family that is called Lithops (or living rock) which evolved to camouflage themselves in the surrounding rocks to avoid being eaten by predators.

jNjZp TIL that Sony’s PlayStation was developed to be an add-on CD-ROM unit to the Super Nintendo. Instead, Sony decided to compete against Nintendo after the latter announced a partnership with Philips on the CD drive one day before the SNES-Play Station was supposed to be announced by Sony.

4jOo TIL a Cleveland woman was ordered by a judge to stand on a corner during rush hour on two days holding a sign that read “Only an idiot would drive on the sidewalk to avoid a school bus”, after notoriously disregarding the law and laughing at the charges.

YpnMP TIL that Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna lost the state of Texas that he previously captured because he took a siesta and forgot to post guards in the face of the American enemy.