Post * pBWp — Curious Curator

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TIL That the Professor from Gilligan’s Island was the first husband of Carol Brady from The Brady Bunch, and that Gilligan’s last name was “Whitehead”.

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OEyg TIL it is illegal for 2 unmarried of opposite sex to live together in Florida. And Mississippi and Michigan too.

WBXN TIL Johnny Cash nearly destroyed an entire species. When Johnny Cash’s truck overheated and went up in flames, he decided to step aside instead of call for help. As a result, a square mile of the forest was burned and 50% of the California Condors bird species were killed. He was fined $82,000

5xA9 TIL a survivor from the 2011 Norway attacks by Anders Breivik was arrested and detained for 17 hours because “he did not react to the carnage with the same tears and hysteria as most of the other survivors”.

PYwWL TIL Russian 500-ruble bill features Argentinian Libertad boat. The graphic designer of the bill admitted he simply used the first photograph of a large frigate he had encountered on the internet

MePYK TIL that the common cultivated strawberry does not occur in nature. It is a hybrid of the Virginia wild strawberry and the Chilean beach strawberry, invented in France in the 18th century.