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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Me80a TIL Jeff Bezos chose books as the thing to first sell on Amazon because it was the product that had the most individual items.

JwDl TIL that Samuel Johnson wrote in his dictionary definition for oats: “A food usually reserved for horses in England, in Scotland supports the people.” His Scottish biographer retorted, “Aye, which is why in England you’ll raise fine horses, while in Scotland we’ll raise fine people.”

nrRY TIL that in 2011 only 4 hate crimes were comitted against atheists in the united states, lower than any other hate crime motivated by religious bias and none of them were comitted against people

ANDQw TIL that the gesture of genteel men resting one hand inside of their jacket is meant to signal a calm demeanor and good breeding

R7Q6j TIL in 2016, the Swedish Tourism Council created a single phone number that connected the caller to a random Swede for you to have a conversation with. In the 79 days it was open, almost 200,000 calls were made with a combined 367 days worth of conversations.