Post * V7MD — Curious Curator

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TIL that over 2500 left-handed people die every year from using equipment meant for right-handed people

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YpVVd TIL The Scunthorpe Problem. Automatic profanity filters on the Internet see banned words inside other words and create problems for users. It is named after an incident in 1996 in which AOL's filter prevented Scunthorpe residents from creating accounts due to the unfortunate substring it contains.

A1r7 TIL: The President of the USA is forbidden to fly in the V-22 Osprey as it is too dangerous

mXyM TIL Batman’s creator Bob Kane stated his favourite interpretation of Batman was Val Kilmer.

8e1wZ TIL Samuel J. Tilden, Governor of New York from 1875 to 1876 and the 1876 Democratic nominee, was a lifelong bachelor and once disclosed to a friend that he never slept with a woman before

71DZ TIL murderer and suspected serial killer Charles Davis raped and strangled his victims and left them on his ambulance route. He would phone in tips and then respond in his ambulance to retrieve the bodies.