Post * DvLp — Curious Curator

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TIL that Xerox has a program it calls Social Service Leave, that allows employees to take up to a year off to work for a nonprofit organization while earning their full salary and benefits, including job security.

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Eg6BX TIL Jimmy Connors is the only tennis player to have won the US Open on all three surfaces on which it has been contested - 1974 on grass, 1976 on clay and 1978 on hard court.

yQDYJ TIL the man credited with writing the song “Take Me Out To The Ballgame” had never been to a baseball game when he wrote it

Bvnk TIL that Yuri Gagarin’s heart was beating at 64 beats per minute just half an hour before the launch that would bring him to space. 64 BPM is lower than the average person’s pulse just after waking up in the morning

Payn TIL In 2002, 15 young girls were prevented from escaping a burning school because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress.

l7lZK TIL Eurypterids, an order of arthropods completely wiped out by the world's biggest mass extinction, were scorpion-like giants that could reach almost ten feet in length.