Post * gZXX — Curious Curator

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TIL, a 400 year-old Bonsai tree had survived the United States’ atomic bomb on Hiroshima…then was later given to the United States as a national gift.

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D1ngD TIL actor Ashton Kutcher took part in the development of software used to identify child sex trade victims, with nearly 6,000 identified to date.

N8xM TIL That there are no living descendants of Abraham Lincoln, his Great-Grandson having died in 1985 with no children.

KYZpJ TIL that Margaret Dickson was hanged in 1724, but was later found to be still alive. She was then released because, under Scots Law, her punishment had been carried out. The words 'until dead' were only added to the sentence of hanging later.

KOWa4 TIL about the Babushka Lady, an unknown woman present during the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy who might have photographed the events that occurred in Dallas's Dealey Plaza at the time President John F. Kennedy was shot.

4XlRR TIL Sirius XM radio is named after the brightest star in the sky, Sirius, as a reference to satellites.