Post * JYj6m — Curious Curator

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TIL of a song called Prisencolinensinainciusol, a song by Italian Pop Singer Adriano Celentano - The lyrics are gibberish and meant to sound like English. This is how non-English speakers perceive English.

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Yp9Rr TIL of the Great Attractor, a gravitational anomaly suggesting a concentration of mass thousands of times more massive than our entire galaxy. However, it is obscured by the Zone of Avoidance (the Milky Way’s galactic plane), making it very difficult to directly observe.

kOgBg TIL of "The Thing", a listening device designed by the guy who invented the theremin, disguised as a gift from the Soviets to the US ambassador to spy on the US.

9wmp TIL that Canada’s official phone number is 1-800-O-Canada.

9wPam TIL ten years after the first courses in electrical engineering were introduced at the University of Missouri, the main academic hall burned down. The cause of the fire was attributed to faulty electrical wiring

8rMa TIL Bin Laden was made a wanted man by Gaddafi three years before 9/11