Post * e0wGb — Curious Curator

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TIL Phil Collins donated the world's largest private collection of Alamo artifacts to the state of Texas. It included a fringed leather pouch and a gun used by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie's legendary knife.

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OoB14 TIL Gerald Blanchard, a sophisticated criminal mastermind, was facing a sentence of 164 years but reduced it to 8 by revealing where he kept the Star of Empress Sisi, a priceless ornament worn by Elisabeth of Bavaria which he stole a decade before from Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria

9Ynmp TIL: donair sauce is made from condensed milk, vinegar and garlic powder

yQmkV TIL not only does the Aztec word that became avocado mean “testicle” (because it grows in pairs), but the fruit was apparently adapted for megafauna like mammoths and giant sloths who would eat it and poop out its unusually large seed in distant locations.

N75BJ TIL about the Ovitz family, the largest family of dwarves ever recorded, and the largest family to be sent to Auschwitz and survive.

Wkw4X TIL that male Billy Goats smell so bad because they urinate on their own head, beard, and front legs to smell more attractive to females during their mating season