Post * yQ0O8 — Curious Curator

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TIL when Ranjit Singh, Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, died, four of his Hindu wives and seven of his Hindu concubines burned themselves alive on his funeral pyre.

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woA9J TIL Wagner Dodge escaped the Mann Gulch fire by lighting an "escape fire" in front of him and laying down on the now dead grass so the main fire could not engulf him.

R7VkQ TIL- Dr Heimlich at aged 96 saved choking woman with manoeuvre he invented at his retirement home. It was the first time he had ever had to use his maneovre in an emergency.

KOD94 TIL there are no such thing as true wild horses any more. The Western US has a population of free-roaming horses that are descendants of domesticated Colonial Spanish horses and are thus technically feral not wild.

j6omv TIL that "Zoozve", an asteroid and quasi-moon of Venus, is named for a typo on a children's poster when the artist misread the object's provisional designation "2002VE" as "ZOOZVE". A podcast host noticed it on his son's poster, asked the discoverer to submit the name to the IAU, which accepted it.

XXrX TIL of Dr. Hawley Crippen, an unfaithful husband who was executed in 1910 for the murder of his wife Cora, after parts of a decomposed body were found in his cellar. Crippen claimed she had left him for another man and moved away. In 2007, DNA evidence indicated that the body was not Cora’s.