Post * LVb0 — Curious Curator

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TIL there is a punctuation mark that exists for the purpose of expressing irony.

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QNkgX TIL Olympia, Washington's Chinatown was once known as "Locke Town" as Chinese residents were predominantly from the Lok family villages in southern China. WA governor Gary Locke's grandfather settled in Olympia as a teenager from China in 1890. There is no more Chinatown in Olympia

kJY7m TIL after being sent to Baltimore in his youth, Frederick Douglass learned the alphabet from the mistress of the house he moved into. When the mistress' husband put an end to the lessons, Douglass began trading bread to hungry neighborhood children who, in turn, helped him learn how to read & write

woD07 TIL that Donnie Dunagan, the child actor who voiced Bambi in 1942, later became a U.S. Marine and served for 25 years, earning promotions up to Major. He kept his Disney past a secret, fearing his fellow Marines would call him 'Major Bambi.'

l7pj1 TIL The State of Virginia donated a statue of George Washington as a gift to Britain. Washington once swore he would never set foot on British soil ever again, so the statue is set on a foundation of imported Virginia soil to ensure that Washington did not tell a lie.

6ZNJ TIL Jellyfish live in every ocean, and have survived five mass extinctions, for possibly 700 million years or more, despite most of them lacking specialized digestive, osmoregulatory, central nervous, respiratory, or circulatory systems.