Post * 661X — Curious Curator

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TIL: James May was fired from Autocar magazine after hiding a secret message that spelled out “So you think it’s really good, yeah? You should try making the bloody thing up; it’s a real pain in the arse.”

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p8Bp4 TIL that when Shaka Zulu's mother died, he ordered that any woman who became pregnant in the year of mourning was to be executed, anyone not sufficiently sad was to be executed, and calves would have their mothers slaughtered so that they would know his pain.

a8M6y TIL of the 'reuzegommers', a group of 'elite' students (children of judges and politicians) who killed a new Initiate. They were sentenced to community service and it was forbidden to publish their names. YouTuber Acid was later convicted of cyberstalking for identifying them.

d8VaB TIL that the longest game in baseball history went for 33 innings for a total of 8 1/2 hours. The game was so long that when pitcher Luis Aponte got home at 3AM, his wife didn't believe his story for being gone. He had to promise her that he would show her proof of the game in the next day's paper.

X01ZD TIl the first page of the Gettysburg Address was written in Washington, in ink and on official stationery. The second page was written in Gettysburg, in pencil on a piece of that happened to be at hand.

j64Kn TIL that an asteroid traveling at 20 kilometres (12.4 mi) per second collided near South Africa 3.26 billion years ago creating a megatsunami that extended to a depth of thousands of meters beneath the surface of the ocean and rose to the height of a skyscraper when it reached the shorelines.