Post * 9wQV7 — Curious Curator

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TIL the Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894 refers to a supposed newspaper article that said because of horses, in "50 years, every street in London will be buried under nine feet of manure." It's an analogy for how new technologies (in this case cars) can take care of problems that seemed unsolvable.

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5dWQ TIL that ‘The Wire’ creator David Simon has said he will make a season six of the series if the US agrees to end the war on drugs.

b9040 TIL that Gwen Stefani discovered her husband, Gavin Rossdale, was having an affair with their nanny after explicit photos and messages popped up on the family iPad. It was signed into his iCloud account.

awAJL TIL in 1969, upon request from Richard Nixon, NASA made 250 display plaques for the 50 US states, 135 countries, and the UN. Flags from all the countries and states were flown on board Apollo 11 to the moon and back, and were gifted to each respective state along with fragments of the lunar surface.

p6Be TIL Aspartame – a common artificial sweeter in soft drinks – is one of the most rigorously tested food ingredients to date. Scientists have found no link between regular Aspartame consumption and cancer.

b9nNN TIL that just as America entered WWII, serial bomber George Metesky informed NYPD that, as a patriot of his country, he would make no bomb threats for the duration of the war. He stayed true to his word.