Post * wED1 — Curious Curator

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TIL King Zog of Albania survived 55 assasination attempts

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PYE7O TIL: The New York Transit authority dumped over 2,500 subway cars into the Atlantic Ocean.

8aXja TIL that black peppercorns are technically a dried fruit of a flowering vine, kind of like raisins

R7L06 TIL that Fidel Castro established concentration camps for gay people because he considered homosexuality as inherently counterrevolutionary and as bourgeois decadence

BgObx TIL Nikola Tesla was obsessed with the number 3 and engaged in a number of compulsive behaviors around it. For example, he would walk around a building three times before entering and he commonly washed his hands three times in a row

a8r69 TIL that Keith Hernandez testified before a federal grand jury in September 1985 that an estimated 40 percent of MLB players used cocaine. Even the Pittsburgh Pirates mascot, the Pirate Parrott, was implicated for buying cocaine.