Post * J1NxQ — Curious Curator

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TIL: Banks in Finland stopped issuing cheques in 1993, The Netherlands in 2002 and Denmark in 2017.

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j6rvj TIL: The Berklee School of Music was named after the founders son: Lee Elliot Berk.

yWlV TIL that if a species is found across the entire world (like killer whales) they are considered to be cosmopolitan.

BryXW TIL when shooting Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth timed his shot so that the noise would be masked by the audience’s laughter. Being an actor, he knew the play Lincoln was watching by heart. Lincoln was laughing when shot.

nWvwP TIL Bob Norris, the first Marlboro Man, was discovered after being seen in a photo with John Wayne. While Norris was the Marlboro Man for 12 years, he never smoked. He also told his kids not to smoke. After they asked why he was doing cigarette ads, he quit his job as the Marlboro Man the next day.

DXyg TIL The “Red Phone” between the US and USSR was never actually a phone. It was a teletype machine, then a fax machine, and now days its a direct email connection.