Post * 7rDGL — Curious Curator

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TIL the X button on a PlayStation controller is actually called the cross button

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8d7Z TIL there is only one resident of Monowi, Nebraska. She’s the bartender, librarian, and Mayor of the town.

Mew17 TIL Producer George "Shadow" Morton wrote the song "Remember (Walking in the Sand)" in his car in one night, only to prove to fellow producer Jeff Barry that he was indeed a "song-writer". The song, played by The Shangri-Las, went on to become #5 on the US Billboard Hot 100

Y7G5W TIL that people are better at recalling unfinished tasks than completed tasks; this is called the 'Zeigarnik Effect'

e0Q4E TIL of Sin Eaters. In parts of England, Scotland, and Wales up until the 19th century, when a person died the family would pay a man to eat a piece of bread off the deceased in order to absorb their sins, risking their souls for a few pence

YGyG TIL the fax machine was invented before the telephone