Post * ZpgxY — Curious Curator

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TIL that Freddy Mercury once snuck Princess Diana into a gay bar disguised as a man.

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698Am TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger's mom cried when she saw all the body building posters in his room

NMRb TIL the Taj Mahal was covered with a huge scaffold during WW2 to make it look like a stockpile of Bamboo and misguide any enemy bombers. (It was also disguised again in 1971!)

xV1kk TIL that after the disaster of ‘The Coconut Grove’ fire in 1942, where in a mad panic to escape the fire people were crushed against the inward opening doors and could not pull them open, all public buildings had to have doors which opened outward

VBMRB TIL “Terminal Lucidity” is the brief return of mental clarity or memory right before before death, in people who suffer from severe dementia and other neurological disorders.

YpKm7 TIL that hydras (small organisms) are practically inmortal and don’t seem to age at all