Post * EYow — Curious Curator

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TIL that the No Child Left Behind Act was responsible for canceling the TV show Reading Rainbow.

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JeXk TIL: The U.S. government has ordered that homeopathy ‘treatments’ must be labelled to say they do not work.

4Xmbo TIL George Eastman founder of the Kodak and helped to bring the use of roll film into the mainstream, suffered from a degenerative disease in his final two years. Eastman died by suicide with a gunshot through the heart. His suicide note read, "To my friends, my work is done – Why wait? GE."

0wxnA TIL The "Wheaton" is a measurement of Twitter followers relative to celebrity Wil Wheaton. The measurement was standardized when Wil Wheaton achieved half a million Twitter followers, with the effect that Wil Wheaton now has 3.91 Wheatons himself.

VBB5D TIL oil does not come from dinosaurs, rather it's the remains of all the bacteria and single-celled organisms that originally ruled the world.

pYBje TIL baseball's Texas Rangers would not swap an August game series at the Houston Astros for a September series at the Rangers. Most of Houston was flooded at the time. Instead, the series was played in Tampa, Florida. The Rangers' explanation was that swapping would inconvenience ticketholders.