Post * LkZO0 — Curious Curator

› added 3 years ago

79

TIL that only one US president (Franklin D Roosevelt) has ever been inaugurated 4 times. Shortly afterwards, the 22nd Amendment was ratified, limiting presidents to two terms. Roosevelt died 82 days into his final term.

Read more

MeJ4A TIL That Steven Spielberg's father Arnold Spielberg, who is still alive at 103, created the first computer-controlled "point of sale" cash register

waJ7 TIL of the Mountains of Kong, a West African mountain range that was charted on maps for nearly a hundred years. It was later discovered that the mountains never existed and were made up by the original cartographer.

Oo4B6 TIL that the Decretum by Burchard of Worms, (c. 950 –1025), recommends two years of penance on fast days for medieval women who have put live fish in their vaginas until the fish dies, then cooking it and feeding it to the object of their affection as a love spell.

nWJJb TIL Bill Cosby fired Lisa Bonet from A Different World because she got pregnant

ZR9o TIL The worst opening weekend ever for a movie goes to ‘United Passions,’ which tells the story of how FIFA was formed, earning only $918 in its first three days