Post * woGnJ — Curious Curator

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TIL Charles Darwin Ate Every Animal He Ever Discovered

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x6N0b TIL A well-publicized homicide can slash a home’s value by 15 to 25 percent. A house with a reported murder will likely take more of a price hit than one with a reported haunting

womb7 TIL the average weight for US men aged 20-74 years rose from 166.3 pounds in 1960 to 191 pounds in 2002

5VnWk TIL: In 2004 hidden documents surfaced implicating LAPD officers in the murder of Notorious B.I.G.

d4Kd TIL that the plane Lyrnyd Skynyrd went down in was earlier rejected by Aerosmiths flight crew because they felt neither the plane nor the crew were up to standards.

QNyMa TIL that in the world's first novel, the 11th-century Japanese "Tale of Genji", none of the characters are given explicit names. It was considered rude to call people by name, so the characters are referred to using (for example) their jobs or clothing color, which change throughout the story.