Post * 4X9Yo — Curious Curator

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TIL How streets, roads, and avenues are different and what the names mean. Road runs between two distant points — two towns, for example. Street applies to urban roadways.

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R7KR9 TIL the term "in a New York minute" was first recorded in the mid-twentieth century in Piney Woods, Texas.

d8YmZ TIL that only specific types of sand are useful in important building materials like concrete. This has creates a shortage of sand in some areas leading to black markets for illegally mined sand run by sand mafias and sand pirates.

xEl7 TIL in 1982, 5 men walked into a Long Island NY diner and forced over 100 patrons and staff to strip and have sex with each other. They also shot 2 men, raped a waitress, and robbed everyone there. Oh, and that was just the last thing they did that night.

ADjEx TIL the Jewish religion does not cook/eat meat and dairy together because it is considered cruel to cook an animal in the very milk that was meant to nourish it.

8aOZP TIL that in 1987, an undercover FBI agent approached 106 New York City officials with offers of various kinds of bribes. 105 officials accepted the bribe. The 106th official refused, because he wanted a bigger bribe.