Post * 5dD8 — Curious Curator

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TIL that Dockers recently increased the size of their ‘coin pockets’ to accommodate the growing size of smartphones

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BmMb TIL Two shipwrecks have been discovered in the search for MH370

loMKr TIL we call people with red hair "red heads" as opposed to "orange heads" because the phrase has been around longer than the colour orange. The colour orange was described as red up until the 1500's when the first reference of orange in the English language can be found.

0wE8p TIL US had extensive contact with Ayatollah Khomeini before the Iranian revolution; and that Carter administration paved way for Khomeini to return to Iran by holding the army back from launching a military coup

x6Awo TIL that a dentist named Edgar Parker legally changed his first name to "Painless", when he was accused of breaking a false advertisement law by claiming that his dentistry was truly painless.

Kyja TIL In the ‘80s, New York City was terrorized by a street gang called the Decepticons. They had names like Megatron and Soundwave and they called Brooklyn “Cybertron.”