Post * R5Grj — Curious Curator

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TIL that in 2015 a barber attempted to murder their customer during a beard trim by slashing their throat.

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b7Ya TIL that a father searching for his missing daughter was photographed–and in the far background of the photo his missing daughter is seen.

Z8Em4 TIL Sea Otters are the reason kelp forests exist off the coast of California

Q1Pa TIL that in 2006, 75% of Chinese didn’t know that sharks were slaughtered to make shark fin soup. But now, 91% of Chinese support a nationwide ban to shark killings, thanks to activism work by Yao Ming and others

1re8 TIL in 1968, two boys playing in a deserted and rat-infested tenement found the body of a 31yo drug addict, surrounded by religious pamphlets and empty beer bottles. Not until 19 months later was the body identified as that of child actor Bobby Driscoll, Academy Award winner and voice of Peter Pan

LkKvP TIL heart surgeon Ellsworth Wareham lead and completed more than 12,000 surgeries up until he was 74 when he then assisted and trained other doctors until he was 95. He drove until 100 and did yard work until the age of 104 when he passed away at home peacefully with his wife of 68 years at his side