Post * gM59A — Curious Curator

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TIL that in 1986, when a murdered woman was found by her husband in their LA apartment, the LAPD considered the case a botched burglary. The woman’s father said that an old lover of his daughter’s husband-an LA cop, was the murderer. He was proven right by a DNA match over 20 years later.

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P1jZg TIL When Emperor Augustus visited the tomb of Alexander the Great, he allegedly accidentally knocked off a piece of Alexander’s mummified nose.

MeYZb TIL - Nicolas Cage's copy of Action Comics #1, featuring the first appearance of Superman and worth $2 million, was stolen from his house and found in an abandoned storage locker 11 years later.

vPZNr TIL North American porcupines love salt and are known to eat backpackers’ road salt-covered boots left outside tents.

6AZm TIL a British bioengineering company has genetically modified genes in male mosquitoes to pass a ‘suicide gene’ on to its offspring in an effort to reduce Dengue Fever.

Ede7 TIL approximately 20% of people have a “neurological glitch” that makes them chronically bad at spelling; they are unable to “see” the word