Post * e0Or4 — Curious Curator

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TIL the Delaware Aqueduct, which provides half of New York City's fresh water, has been leaking up to 35 million gallons of water per day since at least the 1990s.

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R7xl8 TIL Roxette's "It must have been love" was actually released in 1987, as a Christmas song, and when asked to contribute with a song to the soundtrack of "Pretty Woman" they just changed the words "it's a hard Christmas day" into "It's a hard winter's day".

aw4Wy TIL that the pirate Benjamin Hornigold once raided a merchant ship just to steal the hats from the ship's crew because his crew had gotten too drunk the night before and had thrown their hats overboard.

4XyR6 TIL that despite their name and musical style, Skid Row (the band) were not from Los Angeles, but rather Toms River, New Jersey.

VMDl8 TIL of Margaret Corbin. When her husband went into battle in the American Revolution, she went along side him. When he was killed she took his post and was able to fire, clean and aim the cannon with great ease and speed.

9Zr TIL Pope Stephen VI put his dead predecessor Pope Formosus on trial, dressed in Papal gowns and found him guilty of disloyalty and of grasping for ecclesial power. His punishment was 3 broken fingers and being thrown in the Tiber.