Post * Oo4Zg — Curious Curator

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TIL in 1832, a US ship was captured by pirate Pedro Gilbert. After, he had part of filled with explosives, before setting it on fire with the crew trapped inside. However, they escaped and doused the flames, letting smoke billow out until the pirates had left. 6 weeks later, they returned to port.

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XEb4E TIL as of 2019, the quit rate of U.S. employees was at a record-breaking high of 2.3%, the highest it's been in 15 years. That number remained unchanged for 11 straight months, from June 2018 through May 2019, making the longest static period for the rate on record.

Ooyxe TIL Spiders can use Earth Electric Field to fly "hundreds of miles"; Spiders have been found 2.5 miles up in the air, and 1,000 miles out in the sea.

epkln TIL: Henriette d'Angeville was the first woman who climbed the MontBlanc unaided. She had to design her own climbing clothes. She took with her 18 bottles of wine and 26 roasted chickens. At the top she was lifted by her guides so that she 'had gone higher than any man before her'.

BgrEb TIL the fictional Seinfeld coffee shop “Monks” was named after the legendary jazz great Thelonious Monk. A poster of the pianist/composer just happened to be in the room when Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld needed a name for the shop while writing the show.

OG9AY TIL when Richard Hopper went to buy a lottery ticket, the clerk told him they had accidentally printed a ticket for a previous customer who didn't want it and asked him if he wanted to buy that ticket or a new one. He bought the already printed ticket and won $1 million from the Michigan Lottery.