Post * R7l87 — Curious Curator

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TIL that the marker for the Four Corners Monument in the US where visitors put their bodies in four states at once, is off by 1,800 feet to the east meaning most tourists technically just visited New Mexico.

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69EWQ TIL that scavengers are stealing WW2 shipwrecks to sell because the steel in those ships was made before atomic bomb detonations and are free of radiation contamination so it can be used to manufacture sensitive scientific and medical devices.

0dX05 TIL that Moe, Curly, and Shemp were brothers. Larry wasn’t related to the other stooges.

mxBNR TIL buffets are called "vikings" in Japan. This is because a Japanese restaurant manager went to Sweden and liked smörgåsbords so much he copied the idea at his restaurant. This Swedish word was too hard to pronounce in Japanese, so the word "vikings" was used instead after a employee suggested it.

nvMY TIL that the US Republican Party was founded on anti-slavery in 1854 and was considered a ‘3rd party’ when candidate Abraham Lincoln was elected president just 6 years later.

YpjBG TIL Master of Puppets was the first metal album to be preserved by the US Library of Congress