Post * XgRD — Curious Curator

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TIL that 23 year old, Joe Arridy, a intellectually disabled man with an IQ of 46, was wrongfully executed in 1939. He was known for playing with his toy train that the prison warden gave him as a present while on death row. Guards and Inmates described him as “the happiest prisoner on death row”

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yVN8l TIL: In South Korea, some stores carry "one a day" bananas which are packaged in order of ripeness

PoMJ TIL that airplane pilots would announce that Jonas Salk was on board and passengers would burst into applause. Hotels routinely would upgrade him into their penthouse suites.

VB1nZ TIL that designers of a 59-story New York skyscraper failed to account for quartering winds and power loss, leaving a 6.25% chance it would fall in any given year.

01E1 TIL in Australia meter maids exist who feed the meter rather then issuing a ticket

p6WZ TIL in a review of the film “Groundhog Day”, The Washington Post noted it was a good Bill Murray vehicle, but wrote “It will never be designated a national film treasure by the Library of Congress”. The film was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress in 2006.