Post * rNXO4 — Curious Curator

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TIL that the traditional way of proposing to someone in Japan is about miso soup

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Zpxkp TIL about Roy Sullivan, a man who had been struck by lightning 7 times and had kept a water bucket in his car due to his hair catching fire after being struck. He used the bucket on multiple occasions.

R7kal TIL Days before his death Edgar Allan Poe was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore and how he came to be like this has remained a mystery. It’s been suggested he may have been a victim of “cooping” in which unwilling participants are drugged and forced to vote for a particular candidate..

ynVl TIL In 2011, The Canadian version of the game show Cash Cab hit and killed a pedestrian in Vancouver

xDj7 TIL: Karl Marx was known for his extravagant and wasteful spending

WkwlL TIL the female backing volalist on the Rolling Stone's "Gimme Shelter", Merry Clayton, was pregnant when summoned to the recording studio late at night, and suffered a miscarriage a few hours after strenously singing the famous line "Rape, murder! It's just a shot away! It's just a shot away!"