Post * yQgGX — Curious Curator

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TIL that a dental worker once injected herself with mercury and survived

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loMyr TIL that in 1482 there was a knight burned at the stake for homosexuality, and his name was Richard Puller

Lkd0 TIL there is a “heavy equipment playground” in Las Vegas where you can drive bulldozers for fun

J0dl TIL of Oliver Sipple, who saved then President Gerald Ford’s life from an assassin, was subsequently outed as gay by the press, disowned by his family and ultimately died regretting saving the President

dDMAd TIL of the Storegga tsunami, a tsunami that struck the North Sea in 6000 BC submerging an area of land the size of MD

8eyYb TIL that of the 195 UN member and observer states, just 5 aren't party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Of these, 4 are known or believed to possess nuclear weapons, while the fifth is South Sudan.