Post * p8Rj8 — Curious Curator

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TIL of a poodle that fell 13 stories, hitting and killing and elderly woman. A second woman was killed after a bus hit her as she came to see the incident, and a man died of a heart attack after witnessing the events.

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LV5Z TIL forrest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940’s, and that today we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.

k9oe TIL “Chumlee” is paid $25,000 per episode of Pawn Stars.

BrpyW TIL a Harvard professor who had worked with Bill Gates called him shortly after he had left to start Microsoft. The professor recalled, "He had moved to Albuquerque... to run a small company writing code for microprocessors, of all things. I remember thinking: 'Such a brilliant kid. What a waste.'"

Z8mga TIL Pepsico wholly owns the rights to a variety of potato known as FC5, grown exclusively for their Lay's potato chips. In April, Pepsico sued four farmers in India for illegally growing and dealing their patented potato variety.

ADr0g TIL the Summer Olympics have only been cancelled three times since the beginning of the 20th century and all three because of war.