Post * M7rrA — Curious Curator

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Today I learned that if we lived on Mars, we would soon develop orange skin.

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grWAL TIL that Western countries are sending their old digital appliances to a graveyard of electronics near the Ghanaian capital Accra. After arriving at the dump the old divices are dismantled for scrap. Work at the waste site is toxic but locals often use kids to do the job.

4XPv5 TIL about an alarm clock which was stuck in between the walls at a Pennsylvania home, was going off every night at 7.50 EDT, for 13 years.

1ayjO TIL the last words of William Chapman, who was unarmed with his hands up before being shot by a cop in front of a Wal-Mart were reportedly "Are you going to fucking shoot me?"

OoV51 TIL In 1924 George Mallory may have been the first person to reach the summit of Everest. He was last seen 800ft from summit but never returned. He carried a picture of his wife with him that he said he would leave at the summit which he did not have when his body was found 75 years later.

W71od TIL of Leonard Lake, a serial killer who had abducted, abused, and murdered at least eleven people in the 1980s. He was caught after accidentally giving police the ID of Robin Stapley, one of Lake's victims, attempting to pass it off as his own.