Post * yVdop — Curious Curator

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TIL About 'Eden' a reality show that aired for about a month on the UK's Channel 4. Cancelled after only a few episodes the show continued 'filming' for almost a year without telling the dwindling contestants the show had actually been cancelled.

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KYlrG TIL the joke question "who's buried in Grant's Tomb" arguably has several correct answers. President Grant was to be interred but his wife died shortly before the tomb's completion, so both were laid to rest there. Neither was technically buried, though. They rest in an above-ground crypt.

9w7MX TIL that following a deadly avalanche in 1962, Peruvian authorities were warned of the potential for a much larger slide to occur by a group of American climbers. These warnings were not only ignored but actively suppressed. 8 years later the deadliest avalanche in history occurred, killing 30k

P81E TIL a Polish soldier named Witold Pilecki voluntarily entered Auschwitz; he eventually escaped and wrote the World’s 1st ever record of the Holocaust

pYwNp TIL in response to criticism of Mazda naming their SUV after the Navajo, the company donated a Mazda Navajo model to the tribe

aLPo TIL that India is only 109th in real population density, as such a high percentage of the land is arable. There is roughly the same amount of farmable land in India per Indian as there is in Germany for each German.