Post * MeJR8 — Curious Curator

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TIL that During the cremation process of a 500 pound body, the corpse was so obese that its body fat set the crematorium on fire.

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OG4RY TIL 4-yr-old Cecelia Cichan was the sole survivor of the deadliest aviation accident to have only one survive (NW Airlines Flight 2550). Her mom, dad, brother, & 153 others total died. She was found still belted in her seat, faced down with 3rd-degree burns & fractures to her skull, collarbone & leg

xVwM1 TIL About the Cardiff Tower. Hidden in plain sight in a largely Jewish community just south of Beverly Hills, exists a working oil derrick, disguised to look like a Synagogue.

6Eod7 TIL the first named European to discover America was Leif Erikson in the year 1000 near modern-day Newfoundland, but according to his own record when he first made landfall he rescued two unnamed shipwrecked men. This makes those two men the first known Europeans to ever make landfall in America

neerd TIL Vienna installed gay-themed crossing lights for the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest

b9xXN TIL animal life in Chernobyl is thriving, not because the radiation is gone, there’s still a lot of it, but because there’s barely any humans living in that area.