Post * AVZx — Curious Curator

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TIL Nickelback was the second best selling band of the 2000s, only beaten out by the Beatles.

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ADPv4 TIL singer Edwyn Collins suffered a cerebral hemorrhage which left him able to say only four things: "yes", "no", "Grace Maxwell" (his wife's name) and "the possibilities are endless"

N17E TIL: “Bliss”, the the default computer wallpaper of Microsoft’s Windows XP, was taken by former NatGeo photographer, Charles O'Rear while he was on his way to his girlfriend in 1996.

p8RKe TIL of Redoshi, a woman believed to have been the last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade. She was captured in 1860 in West Africa at age 12 and worked on a plantation in Alabama. She died in 1937 and lived long enough to become acquainted with people active in the civil rights movement.

LQDgP TIL that "Saved by the Bell" was a part of killing Saturday morning cartoons. The Day Saturday Morning Cartoons Died - Grunge

p8NEN TIL Life expectancy at birth was a brief 25 years during the Roman Empire, it reached 33 years by the Middle Ages and raised up to 55 years in the early 1900s.