Post * yQBP8 — Curious Curator

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TIL: Radio commentator Paul Harvey’s father was murdered in Tulsa when Paul was a boy.

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OQ96 TIL the US Supreme Court upheld a three-strikes life-imprisonment sentence for $230 worth of fraud

WkgBN TIL Floyd Paxton was eating complimentary nuts and realized he didn’t have a way to close them if he wanted to save some for later. As a solution, he took out a pen knife and hand-carved the first bread clip out of a credit card. His company, Kwik Lok, produces billions of bread closures a year.

J1vOQ TIL that Gwenyth Paltrow once endorsed the practice of steam cleaning your vagina where “you sit on what is essentially a mini throne, and a combination of infrared and mugwort steam cleanses your uterus”. There has been no evidence that steam cleaning has any benefits.

R5x8l TIL John Chapman, aka Johnny Appleseed, not only planted appleseed everywhere he went. He built entire nurseries, including protective fences to deter wildlife. The nurseries were left in the hands of neighbors, who were allowed to profit from the trees, and he would return to tend the trees yearly.

b9XL0 TIL that a man living in a high crime area of Oakland, CA put out a tiny statue of Buddha in an attempt to stop illegal dumping on his property. The tiny Buddha began getting worshipped by local Vietnamese residents, and eventually crime in the area went down 82%