Post * EJoo — Curious Curator

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TIL that Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Tom Hanks have yearly colonoscopys together, and have a sleepover the night before.

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b5la TIL Neil Armstrong would tell unfunny jokes about the moon and follow them with “you woulda had to be there.”

vQ5K TIL Sushi doesn’t refer to the fish or the nori wrapping, but rather the vinegared rice, which is considered the most important component and backbone of sushi.

dD5Gj TIL about Harry Washington, a slave owned by George Washington who escaped to fight for the British during the Revolutionary War, fled to Canada after the war, and eventually joined a rebellion against the British in Sierra Leone

woxe6 TIL Cardinal Bernard Francis Law was named Archpriest in Rome by John Paul II two years after he resigned for covering up the molestation of hundreds of children in Boston over decades

oBVkE TIL that most aerosol cans have a little dot painted on the rim that, when aligned with the nozzle, help you get every last drop of the product out before you run out of propellant. There’s a curved straw inside that runs down the edge of the can and that dot lines up with the bottom of that straw.