Post * M74nA — Curious Curator

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TIL that Valentines day is the day that Saint Valentine was beheaded for supporting soldiers getting married.

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OoDw1 TIL about Lt Commander Joseph Vaghi. He was an US Beachmaster during the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, acting as a "traffic cop" orienting the landing troops. Giving orders under heavy machine gun fire, he ran into an old classmate, who asked him, "Hi Joe, what the hell are you doing here?"

6EZOw TIL that about 110 children are kidnapped by strangers every year in the United States. About 40% of such cases end in the child's death, and another 4% with the child never being recovered. The vast majority of the 50,000+ yearly reported missing children cases are resolved with the child found.

pYBEO TIL the average person consumes about 24 kilograms (53 pounds) of sugar each year, with North and South Americans consuming up to 50 kg (110 lb) and Africans consuming under 20 kg (44 lb).

apm0 TIL movie theater popcorn costs more per ounce than filet mignon

VB1OG TIL that there are oceanic spiders