Post * b6jQ0 — Curious Curator

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TIL that between 1230 and 1561, many English towns had a street called “Gropecunt Lane,” named after prostitution centered on those areas. Many of these streets have since been renamed to “Grape Lane.”

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awNEo TIL Andrea Bocelli has been blind since he was 12, when he was hit in the eye by a soccer ball which caused a brain hemorrhage. Doctors tried leeches as a last resort but unfortunately were unsuccessful.

QJ0k6 TIL that William Morris, famous for the arts and crafts movement in decor, manufactured wallpaper containing arsenic and dismissed anu claims that arsenic made people ill. He was also the owner of a major arsenic manufacturing plant.

8eal4 TIL that Britain looted around 45 trillion dollars from India between 1765 and 1938, based on nearly two years of precise tax and trade data.

dnLr TIL in 2001 four Swedish teenagers were convicted of treason after they assaulted King Carl XVI Gustaf with a cream-cake. The ringleader was fined 100 days’ income; the others were fined 80 days’ income

RdoQ TIL that when traffic cameras were first set up in California, a man got a speeding ticket in the mail that included his photo as proof of guilt. Mad that he was fined by a camera, the man took a picture of money and mailed it off. Weeks later he was mailed another photo… this time of handcuffs.