Post * 6dRY — Curious Curator

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TIL Napoleon liked the painting of Mona Lisa so much that he had it placed on his bedroom walls for several years before returning it to the Louvre.

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e0wQk TIL: Charlie Sheen's revelation that he was HIV-positive sparked an increase in testing equivalent to 7 World AIDs Days.

OGoL1 TIL David Attenborough, in his capacity as BBC Two controller, created the televised snooker tournament Pot Black in 1969. The series was highly popular, playing a large part in turning snooker from a minor sport into one of the UK's most popular.

lowBB TIL the Girl Scouts had a "Computing Fun" badge in the 1980s that featured the binary code 00111 10011 on its patch. This translated to 7 and 19, and when mapped onto the order of the alphabet stands for G S, the Girl Scouts.

nW6yP TIL that in fashion, Labor Day is (or was) considered the last day when it was acceptable to wear white or seersucker. The tradition lies with the migration of wealthy 19th century New Yorkers back from their summer-home Newport Mansions and the accompanying change back from summer clothes.

NwKP TIL that Stalin, sent an expedition to open Timur (Tamerlane) Kahn’s tomb, which had an inscription that read, ““Whoever disturbs my tomb will unleash an invader more terrible than I,” and two days later Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, the largest and most brutal invasion of WWII.