Post * nW6nb — Curious Curator

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TIL that scientists discovered a hidden corridor in Great Pyramid of Giza that could lead to further findings.

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LN79 TIL Kim Sa-rang, a 3-month-old Korean child, died from malnutrition after both her parents spent hours each day raising a virtual child on an online game, Prius Online.

XlR8 TIL: That Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, who died at the age of 101 in 2002, had an older sister, Violet, who sadly died at the age of eleven, eight years before the Queen Mother’s own birth. Which means that one sister died in the 19th century while the other died in the 21st century.

8aEO4 TIL that red velvet cake is really just chocolate cake, where the cocoa powder, vinegar, and buttermilk mixed together creates a chemical reaction to help give the cake a deep maroon color, that is often enhanced by extra food coloring

jN7Ya TIL in 1990 43 out of the 45 climbers attempting Lenin Peak were buried in an avalanche. The two survivors could hear their comrades shouting for help hours after the slide, but failed in any attempts to rescue them as the ice set like concrete immediately

kJeG5 TIL Adolf Hitler hired the creator of Porsche to make the first Volkswagen Beetle(his personal car)