Post * vVl8 — Curious Curator

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TIL Samsung just launched the largest ship in the world. It is 12 times larger than the Titanic.

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ZPba TIL that “stranger danger” is a myth: Children are twice as likely to be killed by a relative and 20x more likely to be killed by their parents than at the hands of a stranger.

QJMa9 TIL Seattle was given nearly a billion dollars in the 60s to build a subway system but never did after the voters voted against it.

QNjP6 TIL that Vincent van Gogh painted Starry Night while living in an asylum, and the view in the painting is based on what he could see from his window.

XEJJX TIL that the world's largest diamond was discovered in South Africa, and it was shipped to England on a steamboat under heavy security. But it just was a diversion, beacause the real stone was sent in a plain box via post

yGGp TIL the explosion from the first nuclear weapon test at Trinity was so bright that Georgia Green, a blind woman almost 50 miles away, asked her brother “What’s that light?”