Post * gvZ8 — Curious Curator

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TIL Venice Island was built on a foundation of tree trunks. 1200 years later, those same trunks still support almost all of central Venice.

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woD76 TIL truck-drivers are the most likely to be a serial killer. According to the FBI, there are over 400+ active serial killer truck drivers unidentified (avoiding suspicion due to state-to-state crossing). It got so bad, the FBI launched a whole operation called "Highway Serial Killer Initiative".

R7BEw TIL about Philipp Mainländer a philosopher who theorised that God committed suicide and his decaying corpse is the living universe, and since God was an infinite being the only way he could kill himself was to shatter his timeless being into a time-bound and material universe.

Lka0 TIL that in March 2012, a U.S. soldier (SPC Dennis Weichel) saved an Afghani boy by jumping in front of a moving truck to push the boy out of the way. He was struck by the truck instead and died of his injuries.

6Wxm TIL-In ‘98, ODB once witnessed a car accident and organized a group to lift a vehicle involved in order to save a 4 year old girl. He frequently visited her in the hospital under a false name until the media caught wind of it.

XVBX TIL: Huddie Ledbetter also known as “Lead Belly” was convicted on charges of murder and attempted murder, Lead Belly literally sang his way to freedom, receiving pardons from the governors of Texas and Louisiana. He would eventually be inducted into the Rock-N-Roll hall of fame.