Post * NXVd6 — Curious Curator

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TIL about Harland Fairweather, who died in April 2017, aged 97. He was survived by his mother, who died five months later at age 117.

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rVZ4 TIL that EA hired people to portray Christians to accuse EA of being the Anti-Christ for the videogame Dante’s Inferno as a marketing scheme.

X01Rr TIL that the redwood tree the Julia Butterfly Hill lived in for 2 years in the 1990’s was badly damaged by vandals in 2000 who cut almost halfway through the tree with a chainsaw. A bracing was made to keep the tree stable and it will likely survive.

XER4j TIL that in 1777 the Sultanate of Morocco was the first county to recognize the United States as an independent nation with a treaty of peace and friendship.

W7R1N TIL in 2001, a baby bear, lion, and tiger were rescued from a drug dealers house in Atlanta. They had bonded as a trio and remained friends for over 15 years. Usually as animals grow older, they grow apart from other species, but these three remained close and even lived in the same habitat.

KO7Yw TIL: Chicago singer and guitarist Terry Kath's last words were "What do you think I'm gonna do, blow my brains out?" just before put what he thought was an unloaded semi-automatic pistol to his temple and pulled the trigger. He didn't realize there was a round in the chamber.