Post * Oo5AR — Curious Curator

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TIL that olives are essentially inedible when picked. It takes an extensive curing process for them to become edible, with no history of how an inedible fruit became such a popular fruit.

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8adYP TIL in 2008, a Swedish amateur photographer, Tomas Langton, accidentally helped solve the murder of a 10 year old girl when randomly testing his new camera. He photographed the victim, Engla Hoglund, at 2:16pm and the killer following in his car, 42 year old Anders Eklund, one minute later at 2:17pm

W7kDA TIL there's a fake American Wild West town in England, called Laredo, built by re-enactors, who bring it to life every other weekend.

4XAo6 TIL Werner Forssmann, a physician, risked his own life to show that cardiac catheterization could work. He cut a hole in his arm and inserted a catheter into a vein, not knowing if the catheter might pierce a vein. He was later awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

16gyV TIL the UK experiences more tornados per year than any other country in the world relative to its land area.

WmLL TIL Boris Nemtsov, a former physicist and liberal Russian politician who was instrumental in the introduction of capitalism following the collapse of the USSR, was shot four times in the back and died on a Moscow bridge in 2015.