Post * 78epO — Curious Curator

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Today I learned that Super Bowl I was broadcast on both NBC and CBS and that the video tapes of the game were subsequently wiped out by both networks to save costs.

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ry94 TIL that there is a sausage restaurant in Regensburg, Germany which is in business since 900 years. That means they were selling sausages well before the Inca Empire existed and are still serving 6,000 sausages a day.

R7xG8 TIL The Magic School Bus’ theme song was sung by Little Richard

K5Wa TIL that “ the most aggressive drivers on the road are men between the ages of 35 and 50 who drive blue BMWs”, a 2013 study found. Drivers are the most obnoxious at 5:45pm on Friday, then early Monday morning. Drivers of Land Rovers, Audis, and Subarus are also among the most aggressive.

nW9kY TIL that the Seke language has only 700 speakers, spoken mainly in five mountainous villages in Nepal. 100 of them live in NYC, and 50 of those live in one apartment building in Brooklyn.

d7bZ TIL that the Airbus A380 jumbo jet was so well insulated from engine noise that the pilots couldn’t sleep during their rest periods as they could hear every crying baby, snoring passenger, and toilet flush. To combat the problem, Airbus was considering piping ambient noise back into the plane.