Post * xVAnk — Curious Curator

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TIL the California Institute of Abnormalarts has an embalmed corpse of a 100-year-old dead French clown, preserved under glass in full makeup. “They’re pre-1925 human remains, so we don’t need a permit,”

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OGkXY TIL that the cast of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy was barely paid for the work they did.

4XAX5 TIL that the Syndey Opera House is considered one of the worst project managerment failures of our time. It was 10 years late, 14 times over budget, the architect never saw it completed and the project manager never worked on another project in his career (he became a lecturer at Hawaii Uni)

j6NoN TIL, while you can go any speed on the Autobahn when indicated by signs, the recommended speed is 130 km per hour. If you are in an accident going 170 km per hour and it could have been avoided at the lesser speed, you will be automatically partially or fully faulted for the accident.

W7oed TIL Jon Briggs, the Voice of Siri in the UK is Also the Voiceover for a TV Gameshow - The Weakest Link

0wW7y TIL about The Schreber Case: a paranoid schizophrenic man whose diary served as Freud's primary source to understand the condition. Schreber believed he was receiving cosmic rays through his anal glands by God in order to transform him into a woman so that he could herald and breed a new race.