Post * r5w0 — Curious Curator

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TIL forging a signature is legal if the persons signature you are forging gives permission.

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XE8MR TIL that Kenyans have won the gold medal in the Men's Steeplechase at every Olympics since 1984, including full medal sweeps in 1992 and 2004.

jNBJN TIL in 1890, two lawyers wrote an article titled “The Right to Privacy". It is regarded as the first publication in the USA that advocated that individuals had a right to privacy. It describes the right as the "right to be let alone".

GYv5G TIL that Postman Pat was fired by the Royal Mail in 2000 because "he no longer fits in with the company's corporate image." Pat Clifton branched out in to SDS courier services and to this day the Royal Mail brand no longer features on any of his vehicles.

dpZr TIL that when actress Delores Moran was 15 years-old she delivered a coffee to a man and never saw or heard from him again. He never mentioned her to anyone but, when he died over 20 years later, he had left her $300,000.

5Y6Vp TIL that in medieval Romania there was a little chamber in the grounds of a fortified church in which couples, whi were thinking about divorce were send and locked up to six weeks in order to repair their relationship. Suprisingly it was very effective.