Post * aE8J — Curious Curator

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TIL that the more expensive the car, the more likely the driver is to cut off pedestrians and other cars.

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neNxr TIL in 1974, a then largely unknown Queen were booed and heckled at a music festival in Australia. Freddie Mercury told the audience, "When we come back to Australia, we will be the biggest band in the world!" Queen would return after debuting their smash hit Bohemian Rhapsody just two years later.

yBnV TIL, Pakistan contributes the highest number of troops to UN Peacekeeping.

0rKy TIL in Italy six scientists were charged with manslaughter because they didn’t predict an earthquake which killed 309 people.

b98E Today I learned that the duchess of York was banned from the royal house for letting a man suck her toes

kexm TIL that the Brits selling Rolls-Royce jet engines to the Soviets after WW2 (for non-military purposes) played a decisive role in giving the Communists the upper hand in the Korean War’s air battles. In Stalin’s own words: ‘Who in their right mind would sell anything like this to us?’