Post * GA4AG — Curious Curator

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TIL that not all years divisible by 4 are leap years. Century years like 1900 and 2100 aren’t leap years unless they’re divisible by 400 — which is why 2000 was a leap year, but 2100 won’t be.

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OQdg TIL a Norwegian rockslide (~8000 years ago) is believed to have created a tsunami so powerful, it turned Britain from a European peninsula into an island.

nanB TIL that in 1944, in effort to raise money for the war, The Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Yankees and New York Giants all played a Three way game against each other. The final score was Dodgers - 5, Yankees - 1 and Giants - 0. It also ended up raising $56.5 million dollars in war bonds.

a8dkM TIL that Pizza Hut are ‘The Official Sponsor of Dominoes'

BgBkb TIL the "Perhapsatron" was an early Fusion Power device developed in Los Alamos that no one was sure would work, hence calling it "perhaps-a-tron"

69OQ TIL that for Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg requested that no one gain admittance to the movie once it had begun.