Post * 6EgEY — Curious Curator

› added 7 years ago

476

TIL, Disneyland's Jungle Cruise is now a self sustaining ecosystem and requires very little landscaping

Read more

XEVbk TIL speed limits are sometimes for air quality reasons

dykr TIL 9 of the top 10 fastest-growing last names in the U.S. are of Hispanic origin

rRw44 TIL Blockbusting is a technique whereby realtors would buy a home on an all-white street, sell or rent it to a black family, and then buy up the remaining homes from whites at cut-rate prices, then sell them to black families at hefty profits. This is later made illegal by the 1968 Fair Housing Act.

neM9r TIL that technically speaking five nations have military bases on U.S. soil: The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, The U.K. and Singapore.

Yprpv TIL that during the making of the Star Wars prequel films, Hayden Christensen had to be told be George Lucas to stop making lightsaber noises as they were filming battles.