Post * Wkvld — Curious Curator

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TIL that the anus has thirty-five or thirty-seven little creases which are as unique as fingerprints. Thx for investigate to Salvador Dali.

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9Y5om TIL that Maltese is derived from a form of Sicilian Arabic.

4VXg TIL a revolt leader in Hungary, was condemned to sit on a red-hot iron throne with a red-hot iron crown on his head and a red-hot sceptre in his hand, his partially roasted body was then force-fed to six of his fellow rebels, who had been starved for a week beforehand.

neVmo TIL the Statue of Liberty was damaged during WW1. During WW1, German agents bombed "Black Tom Island", a major U.S. munitions facility neighboring Liberty Island. The explosion destroyed $22,000,000 worth of military goods and damaged Lady Liberty's torch.

GAX81 TIL that Michelangelo wrote a poem about how much he hated painting the Sistine Chapel, which translates as such: ‘I’ve already grown a goiter from this torture, hunched up here like a cat in Lombardy (or anywhere else where the stagnant water’s poison).’

nWrgr TIL in 1990 an 8 year old girl with cerebral palsy named Jennifer Keelan left her wheelchair and crawled up the steps of the U.S. Capitol Building to urge Congress to pass the Americans with Disabilities Act which had been stalled in committee. It was signed into law a few months later.