Post * wo0M8 — Curious Curator

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TIL Princess Teegra was the princess of Firekeep, a large castle located on top of a system of active volcanoes. She starred in the 1983 animation Fire and Ice.

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7raLX TIL that between the years of 1995 and 2003 the mayor of Bogotá, Columbia hired mimes to ridicule traffic violators in the streets in an effort to reduce chaotic driving. Traffic fatalities decreased 50% as a result.

wRoJ TIL that Iqbal Masih was sold into bondage by his debt-ridden family aged four and escaped when he was 10, after which he went to school and helped 3,000 other Pakistani children escape bonded labor. A symbol of child labor in the developing world, he was shot and killed in 1995, aged only 12.

bebN TIL that MDMA, better known as Ecstasy, was named and popularized by Father Michael Clegg, a Catholic Priest

b4p TIL that a convict serving a 17-year sentence in a Texan prison received over 41% of the vote in West Virginia’s democratic primary

5Yr4R TIL: When city council denied a permit to build on empty lot, a London man applied for a permit for a tank. Thinking it was a water storage container, council approved. Instead the man bought a Russian T-34 tank, parked it on his property and pointed the gun towards the city planning office.