Post * Me4L7 — Curious Curator

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TIL that Vincent Van Gogh might have been murdered by a teenage bully who dressed as a cowboy.

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d8MRQ TIL of the Icelandic Naming Committee, a committee that can deny the introduction of any new given child names into the Icelandic culture and vocabulary based on compatibility with Icelandic tradition.

R7okw TIL of Australian serial killer William MacDonald. When he left a victim under his shop and fled to another city police failed to link it to the other murders and assumed the rotting corpse was MacDonald, who was declared dead

e08L4 TIL in 1955, a local Sears store in Colorado Springs, CO, had an ad stating children can call Santa on Christmas Eve. The phone number listed was misprinted, and calls were directed to NORAD; thus starting a yearly tradition

LkwgV Til that a male seahorse, who handles the pregnancy, can give birth to upto 2000 seahorse babies

b9yN7 TIL that a theoretical particle called a tachyon exists, it has many theoretical properties such as moving faster than light and the ability to go back in time.