Post * 8aQjX — Curious Curator

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TIL that Country Time is offering to pay All Lemonade Stand Fines / Permits

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XEeQk TIL that Italian author Umberto Eco said that social media "gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community...but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots."

QN4Le TIL: The Graveyard of the Pacific is a place where 2,000 ships have wrecked and more than 700 lives have been lost. This is due to unpredictable weather conditions, including storms and fog, and dangerous coastal characteristics, including shifting sandbars, tidal rips, and rocky reefs.

awRg9 TIL that Columbia Pictures' contract with the Three Stooges shut the actors out of royalties. Instead, despite headlining in 190 comedy shorts, the Stooges made much of their money doing live shows. When show business slowed down, lead Stooge Moe Howard sold real estate.

RnDQ TIL A star called Betelgeuse will supernova “soon” and becomes Earths second sun for 2 weeks

k7g TIL that pure gold is referred to as 24 carat because at one point a Roman gold coin used to weigh 24 carob seeds.