Post * E1Z6o — Curious Curator

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TIL Steve Irwin wrestled his first crocodile when he was 9 years old. He hopped on one nearly as big as himself while croc spotting with his father along the river.

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loE5G TIL about the Danish 10 Commandments, called the "Janteloven" or the "Law of Jante." The first commandment is: "You're not to think you are anything special. "

E1mGo TIL that the rights to the film "Back to the Future" are entirely owned by its director Robert Zemeckis who has vowed for there to never, ever, be a reboot in his lifetime.

BgMmD TIL that from ~1927, the US based "Nutex Company" sold 'Radium-Nutex' condoms. The product was seized and destroyed on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission in 1940 for false claims of effectiveness. They didn't contain any radium.

GYmL7 TIL the US Department of Defense withdrew its financial and logistical support for the TV series The Lieutenant (1963–1964) after its creater Gene Roddenberry pressed ahead with a plot titled "To Set It Right" in which a white and a black man find a common cause in their roles as Marines

wL6Go TIL that Aegilops (a genus of Eurasian and North American plants in the grass family; types of goatgrass) is the longest English word with letters arranged in alphabetical order.