Post * GYjdG — Curious Curator

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TIL UPS sells your personal information such as what you bought and where you live, to third parties.

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epxRb TIL Wired telegraph sounders didn't emit beeps. Instead, the signal was fed to an electromagnet which caused a spring-loaded lever to emit clicks for "on" and "off"

9YwJX TIL Big Band musician Glenn Miller scored 23 number one hits in just four years which was more than Elvis Presley (18 No. 1 hits) or the Beatles (20 No. 1 hits) managed in their entire careers.

PYVYV TIL it is illegal in Syracuse, NY to throw a snowball, you're "endangering the public."

ydKl TIL, that Charles Darwin was laid to rest in Westminster abbey. The highest honor the church could offer.

nekAd TIL That although known locally, Machu Picchu was not known to the Spanish during the colonial period and remained unknown to the outside world until American historian Hiram Bingham brought it to international attention in 1911.