Post * 1aoe8 — Curious Curator

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TIL a lifetime Cleveland Browns fan and season ticket holder requested in his obituary for "six Cleveland Browns pallbearers" at his funeral. His reasoning- So the Browns can let him down one last time.

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6KMm TIL baptizing people with beer had to be specifically condemned by the pope in the 13th c., as a place in Norway with a water shortage (but not a beer shortage) was using beer for the sacrament. All beer baptisms were declared invalid, and those who received them had to be baptized again with water.

N780Q TIL That the commonly played version of the famous Eiffel 65 song "Blue(Da Ba Dee)" is actually one of three versions created, and is known as the "DJ Ponte Ice Pop Mix". Two other versions created at the same time, the "Dub Mix" and "Glamour Jump Cut" exist, but rarely see airplay or recognition.

0dPWN TIL that Lil Wayne had his first child when he was 16 and his girlfriend was 15.

5Ydr8 TIL Stephen Hawking’s ashes are buried beneath a memorial stone inscribed with his equation for the Hawking temperature of black holes. To commemorate his death, Hawking’s own words were beamed towards the nearest known black hole to Earth, about 3,500 light years away, by the European Space Agency

lorB TIL whales are getting sun burns due to a weakened ozone layer