Post * g19A — Curious Curator

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TIL A tall, red-haired European looking mummy that was 3000 years old was found in China

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wNk8 TIL an Ohio man bought 3 plots next to his wife and had his sons build a see-through plexiglass casket so that he could be buried sitting astride his custom-painted 1967 Electra Glide motorcycle.

6QJJ TIL the first Hollywood male sex symbol was Japanese.

BrwdK TIL that D.C. has no J street because in the alphabet at the time, I and J were used interchangeably

4XkZw TIL that the World Bank stopped tracking inflation in Zimbabwe in November 2008, when it reached 79.6 billion percent. One year later, the country abandoned its currency. The exchange rate at the time was $35 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars to $1 USD.

yVLPv TIL Babe Ruth became a shirtmaker as a teenager while attending a reformatory/orphanage. Even during his baseball career, he adjusted his own shirt collars, rather than have a tailor do it