Post * ZpVGR — Curious Curator

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TIL that Jerry Springer was born in a London bomb shelter during WWII

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kJoXm TIL of Edward Leedskalnin, a man with fourth grade education, who solely built the Coral Castle with over 1,100 tons of coral rock, using only hand tools. When asked how, his reply was that he understood the laws of weight and leverage. Today, it is a museum open to the public.

D1noJ TIL Xenophanes (c. 570 – c. 475 BC) was the first person known to have used fossils as evidence for a theory of the history of the Earth. Having discovered fossils of marine life on a mountain he posited they were once underwater.

RkM6 TIL that blue lighting in public restrooms prevents heroin users from finding veins and shooting up

BOMr TIL that in 2012, a 14 year old North Korean girl drowned trying to save her family’s portraits of Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung (former dictators) from a flash flood

ZBVY TIL that in 19th-century America, the belief that sausages were usually made out of dog meat was so widespread that they started to be called “hot dogs”