Post * 4MGN — Curious Curator

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TIL the NCAA changed food rules to allow Division 1 athletes to have unlimited meals at school instead of just 3; and the change was probably due to UConn’s guard Shabazz Napier telling reporters he often “went to bed hungry.”

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jvwM TIL there is an unofficial ban Richard Wagner’s operas in Israel, due to its connection to Adolf Hitler and Wagner’s own anti-Semitic writings.

BgxwL TIL about ‘Whipping Tom’, the pseudonym for two different sexual predators, who attacked and spanked dozens of women in Stuart London. They generated so much concern that many women began to arm themselves and male vigilantes crossdressed in an attempted to apprehend them.

1Yl8 TIL that “cob” in “cobweb” is actually an old and forgotten English word for “spiders”

a8ppb Today I learned that concrete truck drivers carry bottles of coke to prevent the concrete from settling in case of emergency

D1jVv TIL that Aeroflot Flight 821 crashed because the captain was drunk. All 88 people died. Additionally, the pilots joined the airline through forged papers.