Post * JYBEk — Curious Curator

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TIL although Smith remains the most common surname in America, for the first time two Hispanic names, Garcia and Rodriguez, have joined Smith, Johnson, and Miller in the top ten most common surnames in the nation

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VB1OG TIL that there are oceanic spiders

E1ag0 TIL that the Super Soaker was invented in 1990 by NASA engineer, and Air Force Veteran Lonnie George Johnson who describes himself as a "part of a small group of African-American inventors whose work accounts for 6 percent of all U.S. patent applications."

OoeZ4 TIL; In 1504, Christopher Columbus scared the natives of Jamaica to continue to provision him and his hungry men by successfully predicting a total lunar eclipse. When the moon turned red, showing his God was ‘inflamed with wrath", the frightened community quickly agreed to his request.

mELM TIL - Jake LaMotta, the real life boxer portrayed in Raging Bull, who’s boxing style was to take punches to the head until his opponent was tired, is still alive and well at age 93.

VMgP4 TIL the nurse being kissed by the sailor in the iconic V-J photo went unidentified for 20 years, when she self-identified and explained she "had stepped outside to see what the commotion was when I suddenly found myself in a sailor's embrace." The two had never met, and the photo was caught by luck.