Post * KgJ9 — Curious Curator

› added 11 years ago

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TIL that the first thing sold on the internet was a bag of marijuana between M.I.T. and Stanford using Arpanet accounts.

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9kb6 TIL that by telling people about your “next big idea”, you lose all motivation to deliver it

VBRRG TIL that horses went extinct in North America about 10,000 years ago. They were then reintroduced to the continent by the Spanish as early as the 1550s.

85W8 TIL that counterfit money printed by the british during the revolutionary war can be detected by its higher quality print than the legitimate bills

VM1Ak TIL Freddie Mercury used a piano as the headboard of his bed and would often play tunes that he had heard in his dreams . This was Bohemian Rhapsody began

5nBB TIL: There is a ‘ghost-town’ millionaires resort on the island of Cyprus. The Turkish military does not allow anyone inside and hasn’t done so for nearly 40 years.