Post * R5xY7 — Curious Curator

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TIL that PinkPantheress's mixed background is the same as Obm's.

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j6naN TIL due to the harshness of the communist Chinese government crackdown following the Tiananmen Square massacre, photos of the famous Tank Man needed to be protected from the authorities, such as by smuggling a roll of film out of the country in a box of tea, and hiding one roll in a toilet tank.

awWbA TIL Friederike Bruning visited India in 1978 to look for a guru, but ended up staying after buying a cow at a neighbor’s insistence. She started a cowshed for abandoned animals and has since saved over 1,800, earning the name “Sudevi Mataji”.

pYAAG TIL that male seahorses get pregnant and give birth.

b6PNQ TIL in 1963 a gem heist occurred in the US every 32 seconds on average which totaled $41 million worth of insured precious and semiprecious stones. In the mid-1960s, an estimated 3.5 million diamonds of one third of a carat or more were sold annually in the US which was "well short of demand."

NXVmP TIL about Miss Belvedere, a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere that Tulsa, Oklahoma buried in a vault beneath the lawn of the city courthouse as a time capsule to be opened in 2007. It contained among other things a lady's purse including bobby pins, tranquilizers, cigarettes, and an unpaid parking ticket.