Post * kOPbg — Curious Curator

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TIL That Hotmail was named Hotmail because it abbreviates to HTML.

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9YxZ7 TIL there's a batch of beef stew in Bangkok thats been simply "topped up" for 40 years. Any bowl you order could have bits decades old

kOblB TIL that when yakuza boss Tadamasa Goto wanted to have a liver transplant performed in USA in 2001, he donated 100 thousand dollars to the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. The gangster jumped the queue and got the liver; that year, 186 people in the Los Angeles region died waiting for livers.

8emgK TIL that frogs account for 88% of extant amphibian species

M7E4W TIL Some of the survivors of The Donner Party bought and settled on land from an eccentric surgeon who had originally named it Rancho Carne Humana. Human Flesh Ranch.

W7oa8 TIL about the Sand Creek Battle that occurred on November 1864 when a 675 man force of the Third Colorado Cavalry attacked and destroyed a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho people in southeastern Colorado Territory killing and mutilating an estimated 69 to over 600 Native American people.