Post * KO06J — Curious Curator

› added 6 years ago

73

TIL A 22 year old Chinese man known as 'C' his whole life was denied the right to continue using his name. The Chinese government does not recognise Latin characters. He could not provide evidence of the letter 'C' being in the National Chinese Standards of Letters and Symbols.

Read more

l7X0N TIL, Australian zookeeper, conservationist, and tv programmer Steve Irwin was filming a documentary in the Great Barrier Reef when he was stung by a stingray. 10 stingrays were found with their tails cut off. It is believe that they were taken out by his fans as an act of revenge.

9YOAG TIL: The Pronunciation of Matt Groening's Name is "Gray-ning." I have always heard and pronounced it as "Grow-ning," but then I was watching an interview with Phil LaMarr, and he pronounced it "Gray-ning." I looked it up, and sure enough, that's how it's pronounced.

PYo8L TIL Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to be accepted at a medical school in the US, because the students thought her application was a prank from a rival school and voted to let her attend.

OGYVX TIL that the D in D-Day merely stands for Day. This coded designation was used for the day of any important invasion or military operation.

e0WaE TIL about Andy Grant, a Royal Marine and Liverpool FC fan, whose "You'll never walk alone" tattoo read "You'll never walk" after an amputation from standing on a mine while serving in Afghanistan.