Post * KOnKw — Curious Curator

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TIL that Luke was written as Plo Kloon in The Mandalorian to hide the reveal

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OLML TIL in 1992 thousands of plastic yellow ducks broke free from a cargo ship on the Pacific. They floated halfway around the world for years and were used to study ocean currents.

NXY7P TIL that American country music singer Lee Greenwood attempted to trademark the term "God Bless the USA." The trademark was rejected since the ordinary consumer would perceive the words at their ordinary meaning rather than as a trademark, which is meant to indicate the source of a product.

x6Eng TIL the earliest known use of prosthetics goes back to ancient Egypt and Iran, circa 3000 BCE.

wLYYM TIL that when the NFL football team Seattle Seahawks invited a retired 4 star general to their facility, Seattles head coach Pete Carroll blitzed him with questions about whether the 9/11 attacks “had been planned or faked” by the government.

yVW1a TIL that O.J. Simpson, few months before the murders, received "a fair amount of" military training – including the use of a knife – for a TV show, and holds a knife to the throat of a woman.