Post * Gyd4 — Curious Curator

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TIL that the NBA originally banned Air Jordans from being used by players, but Michael Jordan wore them anyhow because Nike paid the fine each game he wore them.

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epxG4 TIL that there’s such a thing as basically turtle wax for actual turtles.

8AQX TIL in 1993, during a Friar’s Club roast of Whoopie Goldberg, her then-boyfriend Ted Danson appeared in black-face and began telling racially charged jokes. Montel Williams stormed out of the event and then-Mayor Dinkins claimed offense. It was later revealed that Whoopie wrote the jokes.

mxEkx TIL of Steve Flaig who was adopted as a child. At age 18 he decided to look for his birth mother. Four years later he succeeded and discovered that they were colleagues working in the same store

MegMB TIL that Magellan did not actually complete his circumnavigation of the globe. He died in the Philippines and the voyage was completed by Juan Sebastian Elcano

QWad TIL in 2007 Joshua Bell pretended to be a street violinist and everyone ignored him. Just two days earlier he played in a sold out theater with each seat costing $100. The violin he used on the street was worth $3.5 Million dollars.