Post * p8mAb — Curious Curator

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TIL that if you served, and survived, on the USS ARIZONA during the attack on Pearl Harbor, you can choose to be buried at sea with your crew mates. There are only 4 people left are eligible for this type of burial.

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X7Vr TIL that an unfinished skyscraper in Venezuela has been taken over by squatters and is now home to 2500 people

LeNp TIL to pay for his film Clerks, Kevin Smith sold most of his comic book collection, maxed out several credit cards, used some of the funds for his college education, spent insurance money awarded for a car he lost in a flood, and worked in the convenience store used in the film.

P1e0e TIL about Spacecraft cemetery, the oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die. The area is roughly centered on Point Nemo —location farthest from any land, International Space Station is slated to end up there upon "retirement" and join other 263 disposed satellites.

ANOe7 TIL about Miracle Village, a community for registered sex offenders in Palm Beach, Florida.

4kpDX TIL Margaret Knight (1838-1914) invented a machine to mass produce flat-bottomed paper bags and, after winning a lawsuit against a fraudster who copied her design, the patent was issued in 1871. Her first invention was when she was 12 years old (and began working in a factory). She had 87 patents.