Post * W7bPN — Curious Curator

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TIL Each and every night, a military veteran, the veteran of the day, walks the Sunset March across Nijmegen bridge at sunset. There are 48 pairs of lights, to commemorate the 48 allied soldiers who lost their lives on a "Bridge too far". The lights are illuminated as the veteran walks across.

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WdA TIL That there is a Pranking device That generates specific combination of sound waves calculated to make a person physically ill.

JYXR4 TIL Goldin Finance 117, an unfinished skyscraper in Tianjin, China. The tower was expected to be built to a total height of 597 m. Construction began in 2008 but was twice halted, and it remains unfinished and unoccupied

00Ny TIL that Gangsta’s Paradise is one of the few Coolio songs that doesnt contain profanity. The original version contained swearing but it was removed after Stevie Wonder objected.

PYVmE TIL that 2 donkeys that have been together for 10 years at a zoo in Poland were separated after a local politician and parents complained about them mating in front of children. Experts weighted in and a petition to rejoin them got 7,000 signatures so the zoo put them back together.

0wAdL TIL A hitchhiking robot that relied on the kindness of strangers to travel the world was found with its head and arms ripped off, just two weeks into its first American tour.