Post * 8a75V — Curious Curator

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TIL in the Beatles song Let it Be, "Mother Mary" is actually not a reference to the Virgin Mary. It instead refers to Paul's actual mother, Mary, who died when he was young. The song was inspired by a dream in which she gave him the advice "It will be all right, just let it be".

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yQRWp TIL There was no epidemic of suicides in the wake of the Stock Market Crash of 1929.

v4JK TIL that Michael Eakin, a PA court justice, has been criticized for writing his opinions as poems, such as “A deal is a deal, if fairly undertaken/and we find disclosure was fair and unshaken.” He believes that “You have an obligation as a judge to be right, but you have no obligation to be dull.”

ANKr4 TIL At least 11 people have been born in Antarctica. The first was Emilio Palma, born in 1978 to Argentine parents at Esperanza, Hope Bay, near the tip of the Antarctic peninsula.

78JX TIL North Korea dug tunnels into South Korea to create a way to invade with out having to go through the DMZ.

pY6E4 TIL Thousands of Pigeons Pooped on Spectators at 1936 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony after up to 30,000 pigeons were released and then the organisers began firing canons. The story was relayed and recorded by US Olympian Louis Zamperini, a long distance runner.