Post * dE9Q — Curious Curator

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TIL An orangutan from a zoo reintroduced to the wild in Borneo began spear fishing after watching local fisherman.

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4Xjj6 TIL a tanner, John J. Loud, desiring a pen that could write on leather, invented the first ballpoint pen and patented it in 1888. This pen had a small steel ball which was placed so it could not fall out nor fall in but it still could rotate freely. Loud's invention then was not commercially viable.

6VPY TIL that the parents in Ferris Buellers Day Off met onset and actually got married after filming.

ejxL TIL that during a revolt at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, a member of the SS was stabbed, then burned alive in a crematorium oven

QloX TIL people who believe in the paranormal are more likely to “see” nonexistant things in images

oRp1r TIL the Notre Dame fire disaster was made worse because a guard was sent to investigate, but to the wrong location where he found no fire. The alarm system was not designed to automatically notify the fire brigade