Post * 41j6 — Curious Curator

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TIL of Rocket War, an annual festival on the island of Chios, Greece, where residents of two towns fire 60,000 rockets at each other while trying to hit the rival town’s church bell… while people attend mass inside.

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7r4rL TIL Robin Williams was a notorious joke thief, but some comedians would specifically show up and perform at clubs Robin was at because after Robin stole their bits, he would "secretly" pay them.

b9b1j TIL On August 10, 1519, the Spanish expedition departed from Sevilla in search of the Spice Islands. This voyage resulted in the first circumnavigation of Earth. The expedition was composed by 5 ships: Trinidad, San Antonio, Concepción, Victoria and Santiago, under Ferdinand Magellan's command.

kOvGe TIL Instagram started as a Whiskey meetup app. After analyzing how people used it, they relaunched it as Instagram, and sold it for $1bn two years later

nevN9 TIL the TV show ’The Office’ had to halt production during the 2007 Writer’s Strike because Steve Carell, who supported the writers, refused to cross picket lines. On the first day of the strike he called in to the network sick, citing “enlarged balls” as the reason.

MewGV TIL Barcelona's Concert for Plants was taken for a "Cover"