Post * KOY7G — Curious Curator

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TIL AT&T forced Apple to block Skype calls on the iPhone between 2007-2009 because it competed with their own service

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xVWNb TIL the official centre of London is marked by a plaque inset into the pavement behind a statue of King Charles I, to the south of Trafalgar Square. Distances to London on road signs throughout Britain are measured from this point.

PY8Gn TIL before 9/11 there were only 16 people on the no-fly list. As of 2013 there are over 47,000 people now on the no-fly list.

RM19 TIL that while Pixar was making Toy Story 2, someone accidentally ran a Unix command which deleted the film’s data. It was restored thanks to an animator who kept a copy of the data at home so she could work on the movie while caring for her new baby.

XE7BE TIL of Patty Cannon who was notorious for leading a gang that kidnapped free blacks and sold them back into slavery in what was known as the Reverse Underground Railroad. In 1829, she was arrested for murdering a slave owner and stealing his $15,000.

Y7ZaG TIL the Ghost Camaro from the Bosnian War stalled on the road, but started working again the next day as if nothing happened. The Camaro stalled right before a stretch of road where soldiers were killing drivers, indirectly saving the Ghost Camaro driver's life.