Post * 0wMOy — Curious Curator

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TIL: Paper airplanes were not created to mimic real airplanes. They predate them.

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XrP6 TIL If you earn more than US$21,000 a year, you are part of the richest 4% on the planet.

VMPDp TIL about John Simpkins, an artist who was the sole resident of a ghost town in Andrews, Oregon. A roundtrip venture to the closest grocery store is about 300 miles.

nV1P TIL that the Yankee Doodle lyrics “Stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni” refer not to the pasta, but to Macaroni fashion, a British type of pompous over-dressing.

YMRv TIL during childbirth scenes in movies and sitcoms, infant actors are smeared with a mixture of cream cheese and red jam for an authentic “just born” look.

9DP6 TIL there are still 10 people in the world living in an iron lung, including a man in Dallas.