Post * BNDd — Curious Curator

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TIL Puerto Ricans are voting today as to whether or not to become the 51st state.

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BNWk TIL that William Shatner did all of the Priceline commercials for free, in exchange for stock in the company. He later made $600 millon dollars because of the deal.

nWENP TIL, the Houston home of astronaut Neil Armstrong burned down in 1964 and his family was led to safety by Armstrong and fellow astronaut Ed White. White would later be killed when he and two crewmates became trapped in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft in 1967.

KO6MR TIL in 2008 a man at a ski resort in Italy stole a rubber padding used on a barrier to stop people at the bottom of a sledding hill. He used the padding to sled down the hill, hitting the barrier that he stole the padding from and died.

GYrwQ TIL that when Rolls-Royce was privatised in 1987, a marketing survey showed that it was the second most widely known brand in the world (after only Coca-Cola)

RlOw TIL that John Hughes wrote Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in less than a week and went on to shoot the film on what was essentially his first draft of the script.