Post * dp7Z — Curious Curator

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TIL that Jean Sylvain Bailly, the mayor of Paris and a renowned scientist was executed during the Reign of Terror. While being led to the guillotine a member of the crowd mocked “Do you tremble, Bailly” and was met with the response “Yes but only from the cold”.

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LkL1P TIL when Joseph Vaillancourt's 2,609,698 km 1963 Plymouth Fury taxi, at the time the highest-mileage car in North America, was hit by a truck, actor Michael Barette personally spent about $20k on restoring the car.

x6MNw TIL the Royal Navy captured a Brazilian slave ship in 1827, renamed her after an old English folk song, (that also happened to be the name of an English slave ship in the 1700s), and assigned it to fight against the slave trade.

4lmg TIL a woman fell after summiting Everest. Her husband died trying to rescue her. Two climbers comforted her before leaving her to die because they couldn’t carry her. After much guilt, they went back 8 years later to enshrine her body. Her husband was found a year later.

698ew TIL of William Lee Bergstrom. He was a gambler known for placing the largest bet in casino gambling history at the time of $777,000. He won and returned several years later only to win again. On his third bet of a million dollars he lost. He committed suicide shortly after.

NJae TIL That, over the course of 144 episodes, only one character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer died of natural causes. The following episode, which examines Buffy’s mourning/reaction to the first death she couldn’t have prevented, is consistently ranked as one of the best television episodes of all time.