Post * WvdY — Curious Curator

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TIL: The average weight for Adult American Men is 196lbs, the average for women is 156lbs

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nW9Qo TIL a study found that George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire contains over 2,000 named characters with over 41,000 interactions b/w them. Yet the most prominent characters avg out to have only 150 others to keep track of, which is the same number the avg human brain has evolved to deal with.

wAl1 TIL of a man who was the last tenant in a housing unit to be developed and who was found in his apartment decapitated by a chainsaw with his death being ruled as “nothing suspicious” by authorities.

D10Bj TIL 7-Eleven, which was started in Dallas, was saved from Bankruptcy in 1991 by it's Japanese branch, and then later bought out by them in 2005.

5VP5R TIL in the 1930’s, Mussolini, outlawed pasta. Instead of producing strong Italian soldiers, the pasta weighed the youth down and made them lazy. The real reason was that Mussolini wanted to sell more rice, a staple crop in his home region in Northern Italy, which caused a split with the South.

AO4o TIL that whenever al-Qaeda organised games of volleyball, Mohammed Atef and Osama Bin Laden were forced to be on separate teams since they were both tall, and skilled players.