Post * JYwVB — Curious Curator

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TIL the disney Pixar movie wall-e angered fat pride groups for its message towards obese people.

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YpxYv TIL that in the last days of WW1, the Germans blew up all the French factories, bridges and railways they could and flooded the mines in France's most industrial area. This was the reason why France asked reparations from Germany, French economy needed that to survive after what the Germans had done

e104 TIL that the oldest operating school in the world is The King’s School in Canterbury, England, at 1,420 years old. It was founded in AD 597 during the Late Antiquity era, 100 years after the fall of Rome.

epn9L TIL Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation music video produces a resonant frequency capable of crashing the hard drives of older laptops.

RlA1 TIL that the longest anyone has ever survived in a shipwrecked raft was 133 days by a Chinese man named Poon Lim. He survived the ordeal by fishing, drinking bird blood, and killing a shark with a jug of water. He died exactly 23 years ago at the age of 72.

XE5GR TIL A McDonald's in Helena, Arkansas used to produce its own commercials in the 90's. Here's one of them.