Post * BVNx — Curious Curator

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TIL Yelp itself only has a 2.5 star average with almost 6000 reviews on Yelp.

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Oopag TIL that Van Halen's "no brown M&Ms" clause was a way to make sure show promoters read the whole contract

64Xm TIL that due to the fact that only 1 out of 50 subscribers to porn sites are women, some billing companies will automatically flag an account as fraud if a female name was used to register

6E76w TIL that "The War of the Worlds" plot arose from H.G. Wells wondering "if Martians did to Britain what the British had done to the [indigenous] Tasmanians?", which most modern scholars characterize as a genocide.

8eaDV TIL President Dwight Eisenhower regularly had a supply of Coors beer flown to Washington DC by the US Air Force, at a time when Coors could not be legally sold east of the Mississippi River, and President Gerald Ford once smuggled some back to DC from Colorado in his luggage.

vPaRB TIL Brontosaurus is a valid dinosaur again. As of 2015 it is no longer considered to be the same species as Apatosaurus.