Post * 0wg5 — Curious Curator

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TIL Motorola’s first “brick” phone had a 30-minute talk time and a 10-hour charge time.

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DQkv TIL In 2008 Buster Posey of the San Francisco Giants, while playing for Florida State University, once played all nine positions in a game. During that game, he struck out the two batters he faced and hit a grand slam.

XE7Mk TIL California law allows employees to take two hours paid time off in the beginning or end of the work day to vote on election day.

kkA5 TIL that George Clooney was asked to play himself in a sketch for the Movie 43 (the gag was that Clooney is bad at picking up women), and Clooney replied “No fucking way.”

8a6vX TIL a civilian who went on a fly-along aboard a French Air Force Rafale B fighter jet was accidentally ejected during flight. He survived with back injuries and the pilot managed to land the jet with minor injuries to his hands from broken canopy glass but the cause of the error is unknown.

P109L TIL about a cat named Room 8 that lived in a public school for 16 years. During his time their he would disappear during the summer and return, like clockwork on the first day of school. He became so well known that poems and songs were sung about him.