Post * QvZe — Curious Curator

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TIL the Executive Director of the Sugar Bowl, who runs one football game a year, makes more in salary than the President of the United States

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vwYD TIL a 38-year-old mother asked her son’s deeply-religious friend to pick her lotto numbers and agreed to share any winnings. The ticket was a jackpot winner. The mother refused to share the money until she was ordered to by the New York Supreme Court.

W8wL TIL that Charles Whitman, the Texas Tower shooter, asked for an autopsy in his will to determine what made him kill. The autopsy found a tumor pressing on his amygdala, which controls the fight or flight instinct and possibly influenced his actions.

N7PrM TIL JFK, contrary to popular belief, was a very sick man his entire life.

m7QM TIL that East Germany created its own cola drink. Vita-Cola’s sales almost disappeared after the fall of the Berlin Wall brought Coke and Pepsi into the East. It is still the most popular cola in Thuringia, making the German state one of the few places in the world where Coca-Cola is not the leader.

E4k7 TIL the “50% divorce rate” for all marriages is a myth. The number is closer to 30% and varies among different groups.