Post * rNKGd — Curious Curator

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TIL why the Colombian government is blowing up oil refineries.

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Y78Qr TIL that the American Dream Mall in New Jersey has escalators on the third floor that go to nowwhere. According to the malls spokesperson there are plans for a future entertainment expansion on a fourth floor. However no construction on it has begun, yet they already installed the escalators.

v1VpB TIL Episode 122 of The Twilight Zone, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”, was a French film short that had won awards at the Cannes Film Festival in 1962 and an Oscar for Live Action Short Film in 1963. Producers paid $25,000 for rights that limited them to airing the story no more than two times.

R7mnw TIL Wayne Brady (of Whose Line Is It, Anyway? fame) appeared in a segment on Sesame Street to sing a song about “between”

9w7nG TIL that once, in 1910, the Ottoman Empire sent 80,000 stray dogs to a desert island, where they quickly became feral and ended up cannibalizing each other. This event is known as the "Hayırsızada Incident"

Bg0Jy TIL in the late 1970s a teenage boy stole 50 paintings valued at over $300,000 from a Pennsylvania art museum by slipping them out the window and later selling them through Sotheby's in NYC.