Post * b9wXN — Curious Curator

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TIL that California is home to world’s oldest, tallest, and the largest trees.

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nBnG TIL Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary was convinced by QT to forfeit his cowriting credit and accept a “story by” credit, so the line “Written & Directed by Quentin Tarantino” could be used instead

LQKLd TIL at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, the remains of at least 20,000 soldiers and horses killed in battle were exhumed after two weeks and sold to a sugar factory in Belgium, where the coveted granulated bone charcoal was needed as a filter material for decolorizing or “bleaching” the sugar.

xQQo TIL a Texas man walked in on a farmhand molesting his 5-year-old. He flew into a rage and beat the man to death. Realizing what he had done, the dad immediately called the cops and even tried to take the farmhand to the hospital himself. Ultimately, the local sheriff decided not to press charges.

Yp1yA TIL in 1979, a woman became ill on Space Mountain and couldn't exit the rollercoaster. While waiting for help, she was accidentally sent on the ride a second time by a different set of employees. She slipped into a coma and died one week later.

x6jWg TIL that when future Czar Nicholas II visited Japan in 1891, he was nearly assassinated by a Japanese policeman who swung a sword at his face. And the Tsarevich came back to Russia with a dragon tattoo.