Post * ZpLX4 — Curious Curator

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TIL that Hedviga Golik, a Croatian nurse, died alone in her apartment in 1966. Her body remained undiscovered for 42 years until found in 2008 during renovations. Neighbors never reported her missing, and her electricity was paid by the building’s architect until shortly before her body was found.

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4Znw TIL The remains of an 18th-century ship were found in 2010 while excavating the Wolrd Trade Center site

X0nYr TIL In 1942, the Japanese invaded the Aleutian island of Attu, capturing 42 Unangan (Aleut) residents and deporting them to a prison camp on Hokkaido. In 1943 the American forces retook the island in intense combat. Only 26 of the Unangan captives survived and none ever returned to Attu.

b9D90 TIL that Carl Sagan lived in an Egyptian Revival home called The Sphinx Head Tomb in Ithaca, NY

4rJN TIL perfume is located at the front of department stores in part because department-store pioneer Harry Selfridge placed his there to mask the odors of manure and exhaust from the street.

8aRB8 TIL of the Welsh Christmas tradition, Mari Lwyd, in which a skeletal horse mounted on a pole visits your door singing poetry. You are then compelled to engage in a battle of rhymes and must best it or else you’ll have to let it inside and give it food.