Post * 5vxQ — Curious Curator

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TIL that Howard Stern ran for Governor of New York in 1994 promising to limit road work to night hours. He eventually withdrew, but later that year, The Howard Stern Bill was signed into law which limited road construction in New York City and Long Island to night hours.

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Oopka TIL that Charles Mingus, the revered jazz composer, published a pamphlet on training your cat to use the toilet instead of a litterbox.

R7Vl4 TIL that Final Destination (released in 2000) was originally intended to be be an episode of the X-Files

4Olo TIL that, prior to Jaws (1975) and Star Wars (1977), summers were considered the “graveyard season” for movie releases

loGNG TIL Blue Whales are the largest animal to have ever existed on Earth, being larger than all dinosaurs, and every single big sea animal from the past

lo9l7 TIL about the WW2 battle between the destroyer USS Borie and U-405, in which the two ships collided and became locked together. The crews had to resort to fighting at close range, with small arms and anything they could get their hands on. One German sailor was even killed by a thrown sheath knife.