Post * e0ZJE — Curious Curator

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TIL there is a variation of rock paper scissors with 15 different hand combinations

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b6mnZ TIL in 2004, a man named Brian Jones purchase the house where much of A Christmas Story was filmed and restored it. Then he opened a gift shop across the street, museum next to it.

nW7L9 TIL An English composer, Jeremiah Clarke, couldn't decide if he should commit suicide by hanging or drowning himself. He flipped a coin and after the coin landed on its edge in the mud he went home and shot himself instead.

vPZbL TIL there's an Underground river beneath the Amazon River, it was discovered in 2011 and its about as long as the Amazon river, but it is much broader. It's unofficial name is the Rio Hamza

WZr9 TIL: In WWII Germany developed a missile that could hit the US that was manually piloted and suicidal.

yQyEV TIL that in 1932 three bear species and wolves were put in the same enclosure. They lived peacefully at first, but the polar bears eventually drowned multiple black bears by pushing them into a pool and holding them down. The manager blamed the black bears for “not learning not to go near the pool.”