Post * R5aX8 — Curious Curator

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TIL that in 1985, a woman named Dawn Smith worked with the FBI to draw out a serial killer who had murdered her sister Shari, talking to him by phone multiple times, even after he said God told him to kill her too. The following year, Dawn was 1st runner up in the Miss America pageant.

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kJBlm TIL the origin of The Windsor Hum - a mysterious low-frequency hum that plagued the city of Windsor for years, turned out to be caused by a U.S. Steel facility from across the river.

XEQPE TIL about A Free Ride, the earliest extant American pornographic movie, from 1915

Nkx8 TIL “Serenity” was the first high definition movie to be cracked and torrented.

N7AdP TIL about Kenny brack, a former Indy racing car driving who got into a crash & experiencing a declaration of 214g, holding the record for surving the highest G force experienced by a human. It also made his body 214 times Heavier for a fraction of second, weighing 15 tonnes.

RWa8 TIL in 2008 a Brazilian priest, as part of a fundraiser, strapped 1000 balloons to a lawn chair and sent himself up. Weeks later, he was found dead at sea, earning him a Darwin Award.