Post * d8a5B — Curious Curator

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TIL that movie theater popcorn costs 1275% more than it is worth

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69A9Q TIL that during World War II, publication of the Michelin Guide was suspended. In 1944, at the request of the Allied Forces, the 1939 guide to France was specially reprinted for military use; its maps were judged the best and most up-to-date available.

WLNY TIL: A woman was raised by monkeys after being kidnapped and abandoned in jungle when she was 4

eR5n TIL that on February 1, 2012, the workers at a store in King Cove, Alaska, left a half hour early because the weather was bad. 15 minutes later, an avalanche slammed into the store’s warehouse, annihilating it. And it was all caught on three separate security cameras.

d8lbE TIL 15 human feet in shoes have washed up along the Pacific Northwest coast since August 2007.

8aOnZ TIL Arborglyph is the carving of shapes and symbols into the bark of living trees. Derived from arbor ‘tree’; glyphein ‘to carve’. It was also mentioned in Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’; the love-frenzied Orlando declares he will carve every tree in the Forest of Arden.