Post * MZ0A — Curious Curator

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TIL Parents from Germany put their seven month old child on ebay as a ‘joke’. As a result the child was taken into care and an investigation launched into child trafficking.

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LkbA0 TIL : The Ark Of The Covenant is claimed to be located in the church St. Mary of Zion in Aksum, Ethiopia. A guardian monk is appointed for life by his predecessor and then confined to the chapel of the Ark of the Covenant for the rest of his life, praying before it and offering incense.

wDA8 TIL Pearl Jam cancelled their 1994 summer tour after they found out Ticket Master was demanding a ‘service charge’ for fan’s tickets. This prompted the band to begin building their own “stadiums” in rural areas where they independently sold tickets to shows to keep prices low.

Y7E7P TIL in order to prove to Sony that The Social Network would be under 2 hours despite the length of Aaron Sorkin's script (162 pages instead of the typical 120), director David Fincher timed Sorkin reading it out loud, which took 1 hour & 59 minutes. The final runtime was the same. (25:46-26:58)

MJm7 TIL during The Battle of Shiloh in the Civil war, many of the soldiers’ wounds glowed. Those with these glowing wounds healed faster, and thus the wounds were dubbed the “Angel’s Glow”.

QJA5d TIL that during World War II, the US Navy’s Third Fleet and Fifth Fleet were largely composed of the same ships. The change in Fleet numbers was used to designate which Admiral was in command at the time ( Halsey or Spruance) and to make the Japanese think there were twice as many ships.