Post * vOND — Curious Curator

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TIL there is a bird that can imitate the sounds of chainsaws and car alarms.

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9O87 TIL that in 1977, a man attempted to commit suicide by jumping in front of the NYC subway. He survived but was injured, and then received $650,000 in a settlement because the subway operator had “not stopped fast enough”.

ORwa TIL of Death Valley Unified School District, which covers 6000sq miles but serves only 60 students, making both one of the largest and smallest districts in the USA. It is also the only district with a school inside a national park.

y6EJ TIL that Thomas Jefferson believed Lewis and Clark would encounter Woolly Mammoths, mountains of salt, and a race of Welsh-speaking Indians along their journey west.

xVba7 TIL some Viking raiders converted to Islam and became cheese traders after their attacks were repulsed by Muslim Spain

KOElJ TIL of the 870 million firearms in the world, 100 million are AK 47's