Post * 7rGLM — Curious Curator

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TIL Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother has an essentially infinite runtime. The final track Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast ends with the sound of a dripping faucet etched into a run off grove that never resolves and will play until the listener stops the record.

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Rp1 TIL under apartheid, Japanese people in South Africa were considered white, while Chinese people weren’t

m1x6O TIL about Joe Kieyoomia, a Navajo soldier who survived both the Bataan Death March and the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. He was tortured more than other prisoners because he was mistaken for being a Japanese American traitor. After the war he returned home to New Mexico and lived to 77.

b6Jlj TIL the original Baltimore Ravens logo was redesigned because the Ravens refused to give him an autographed helmet to it's creator.

joKv TIL that Carl Sagan and the 14th Dalai Lama had a 35 hour communication captured on film.

4XKj5 TIL of Daryl Davis, a blues musician that that has convinced over 200 members of the KKK to give up their robes. He did this by befriending them.