Post * Egbo0 — Curious Curator

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TIL that Astérix, the first French satellite to reach orbit, was named after the cartoon character of the same name

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4kAEw TIL-the song Discord my the living tombstone is not about the social platform.

dBPZ TIL that to become a British Citizen, you must first be familiar with sketch comedy legends, Monty Python

BgWWx TIL the last known Egyptian hieroglyphic inscription is the Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, written in 394AD; it invokes the deity Mandulis to keep the inscription safe for "for all time and eternity"

VgE8 TIL that not only can Brazilian prisoners take time off their sentences by writing book reports, but also by riding exercise bicycles that helps power the local plaza. (16 hours of biking = 1 day removed from sentence)

VjnG TIL that in 2010, a drunk Serbian man on vacation in Egypt became a local hero after he did a cannonball into the ocean and inadvertently killed a Hammerhead shark that had been terrorizing people for weeks.