Post * p8wdb — Curious Curator

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TIL About the battle of Shipka Pass, in which 5,500 Bulgarian volunteers and 2,500 Russian Soldiers defended against a 40,000 strong Ottoman army and successfully held their position.

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LQrd9 TIL: King Edward VII commissioned a custom "chair" that let him "pleasure" multiple women simultaneously. Three were made, with one "original" and the two others being replicas, one of which is housed in a museum for sex devices.

KYKwJ TIL there’s an abandoned Six Flags in New Orleans that was shut down after heavy damage from Katrina. It’s been used for various films such as Percy Jackson, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and Jurassic World.

GA97E TIL of the Tel Aviv central bus station - a mega structure that includes a nuclear bomb shelter for 16,000 people. The station was designed to be confusing, so that commuters would spend time shopping. Most of it became completely abandoned, taken over by violent criminals and even a colony of bats.

j80N TIL: In 1838, Missouri fought a war against Joseph Smith and the Mormons. The Mormons burned an entire county to the ground, and Missouri’s governor ordered the expulsion or genocide of all Mormons.

d8aY7 TIL Texas is called The Lone Star State because when it was part of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas, its flag bore two gold stars in the middle. When Texas declared its independence from Mexico they "took" one of the stars with them and Coahuila kept the other one.