Post * MeB78 — Curious Curator

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TIL it is unknown if Amerigo Vespucci ever learned that the New World would come to be named in his honor by cartographers prior to his death.

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AJda TIL Bill O'Reilly’s book “Killing Lincoln” isn’t sold at Ford’s Theatre because it is “riddled with inaccuraccies”

M7DlK TIL in the AFI’s ranking of the greatest films in American cinema, 3 of the top 4 films are the Godfather trilogy

JYGVQ TIL the Jèrriais language spoken by a few thousand on the island of Jersey located between France and England, is the closest living language to medieval Anglo-Norman spoken by the descendants of William the Conqueror.

BrKVy TIL the original Xbox had actual recordings of the Apollo missions in the menu sounds

gr6AW TIL orcas cultural fads. In the 1980s one such fad was wearing dead salmon as hats. It spread to three separate Pacific pods before suddenly going out of style.