Post * 0daAp — Curious Curator

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TIL butter sold on the west coast comes in shorter and wider sticks compared to butter sold east of the Rocky Mountains

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Yvxd TIL Viggo Mortensen purchased the horse Aragorn rides in Lord of the Rings after production.

grvZ4 TIL the longest word in the English language is 189,819 letters long and takes over three hours to pronounce. It's the chemical name for the largest known protein, often abbreviated as Titin.

9YWpD TIL that when Guns 'N Roses broke down on their way to a gig in Seattle in 1985, they ate raw onions from a field at the side of the road, managed to hitch a ride to the club and, when afterwards the owner refused to pay them, they tried and failed to burn the club down.

Wa4A TIL Children’s books have 50% more rare words in them than does an average showing of adult prime-time television.

XE5VE TIL that a jazz musician named Teri Pall invented a version of the cordless phone in 1965 but could not market her invention, as its 2-mile range caused its radio signals to interfere with aircraft communications.