Post * MGE8 — Curious Curator

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TIL Ichiro Suzuki learned Spanish through his career in order to talk trash to the Latin players.

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9YRem TIL about Smoky the dog, who was a Yorkshire dog found in New Guinea by an American Soldier during WWII and survived 150 Air Raids and once parachuted from 30ft in the air. She was later rewarded with Eight Battle Stars and was also the First Recorded Therapy Dog.

kOp0g TIL that the last German Kaiser, Wilhelm II (born 1859), lived to see the rise of Hitler and the first two years of WW2, dying in 1941. When Hitler took Paris, he wrote a telegram, writing "Congratulations, you have won using my troops."

ngL7 TIL a gravitational anomaly called The Great Attractor pulls Milky Way and millions of other galaxies towards itself at a breakneck 22 million kilometers (14 million miles) per hour.

eaLg TIL that the word “idiot”, in Athenian democracy, referred to a person who was selfish and concerned only about their private affairs, while having no interest in public concerns at all.

R7YJ7 TIL You Could Download Video Games From the Radio in the 1980s