Post * aBob — Curious Curator

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TIL: Dian Fossey, American Primatologist murdered in Rwanda, left all her money (including movie profits from “Gorillas in the Mist”) to the Digit Fund to finance anti-poaching patrols, but her mother challenged the will and was successful.

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GYn45 TIL of Chen Si, a Chinese man who has spent every weekend since 2003 voluntarily patrolling the world's most popular suicide site. As a result, he has prevented over 300 people from jumping over the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge.

DydP TIL that in the early days of typewriters, Mark Twain stopped using one for letters because of the number of questions he would receive about the machine in response to said letter.

OopVe TIL that the notion of a "white Christmas" was popularized by the writings of Charles Dickens, whose stories that depicted a snowy Christmas season were based on his childhood, which happened to be the coldest decade in England in over a century

7rgnZ TIL a man bought a golden egg for $13,000 at a sale. It turned out it was an incredibly rare Fabergé egg, once owned by the Emperor of Russia, that had been missing since 1902. It is worth $33,300,000.

7lQb TIL on September 11, 1857, a group of Mormons dressed up like Indians and massacred about 120 men, women, and children who were traveling through Utah in a wagon train.