Post * P1xgL — Curious Curator

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TIL Randy Johnson, one of the best pitchers ever, is now a professional photographer.

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xVQgk TIL that people in Hartlepool, England ???????????????????????????? once hanged a monkey in the belief he was a spy.

Oook4 TIL not only is there a full taxidermed whale in a Swedish museum, but a couple was once caught having sex inside

v1pKr TIL that The Great Pyramid of Giza, the oldest by over 1000 years, is also the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing.

PYlaZ TIL that Japanese bullet trains have never had fatalities due to derailments or collisions, but once a boy had his finger stuck in the closing doors and was dragged along until dead. Court fined the station officer present $5k and had Japan Railways pay the boy's parents $440k in compensation.

16xMV TIL that one man has single-handedly mapped over 90% of the River Thames.