Post * 16k6r — Curious Curator

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TIL that James Michael Tyler initially got the part of Gunther in Friends because he knew how to work a coffee machine and would look authentic when working in the background.

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Abvd TIL North Korean exists because Taiwan exists: China was prevented by the US 7th Fleet from invading Taiwan in June 1950, so Mao Zedong announced China would enter the Korean war with the invasion force originally intended for Taiwan, and by October this force saved North Korea from imminent defeat

0drJN TIL that thing that you toss into those rectangles while playing hopscotch has a name other than that thing you toss into those rectangles while playing hopscotch. It's called a "lagger".

kjMe TIL of Adactylidium, a species of mite in which seven female offspring and one male offspring are raised in their mother’s insides. The females then mate with the male and eat their mother alive from the inside-out. Then, they escape their mother’s corpse, leaving their brother to die.

yQ0DJ TIL circular indentations on plastic milk jugs have a purpose! The soft, flexible plastic design will bulge if the milk has spoiled, allows extra room for expansion if frozen & absorbs damage from falling.

mLyx TIL of a girl named Laura Buxton who released a balloon with her name on it that landed in the yard of another girl also named Laura Buxton. They also have the same color hair, are in the same grade, have black three-year-old female Labrador dogs and a rabbit and identical guinea pigs each.