Post * a7gy — Curious Curator

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TIL that the first man to wear a top hat was arrested for causing women to faint and creating a riot that ended up breaking a young boy’s arm.

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eKKb TIL A former teacher named Mohan Kumar would befriend young women, have sex with them and convince them to take a “morning after pill”. Little did they know, the morning after pills were cyanide capsules made by him. He killed twenty women this way.

ZpeQG TIL that aesthetic dentist Dr. Irwin Smigel was the father of comedy writer Robert Smigel.

yVeMM TIL All the gold that has ever been discovered on Earth would fit into a 23 meter cube.

9w8bp TIL in the UK alone, some 7 million Halloween costumes are binned each year, equivalent of 2000 tons of plastic, and globally less than 13% of material inputs to clothing manufacture are recycled and only 1% of clothing textiles are recycled into new clothes. According to The Fairyland Trust.

Eg1ap TIL portraits of presidents were not depicted on the official currency of the USA until the beginning of the 20th century. The first dollars had the figures and faces of the characters of Greek and Roman mythology and pictures with the participation of Native Americans appeared on the money.