Post * N718N — Curious Curator

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TIL that in 1997, scientists used magnets to levitate a frog.

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WoXA TIL Pies were named in the Middle Ages after their most common ingredient, magpie.

6ERKw TIL that the first Spearmint Rhino strip clubs were converted from a chain of children's restaurants called the Peppermint Elephant.

KOKp6 TIL Edward Bowen and his wife did not board the Lusitania after reading Germany’s warning in the newspaper that Germany would sink the ship. They were the only two that cancelled their plans

Oo4j6 TIL about Sylvia Robinson who is often credited as starting Hip-Hop..Robinson is credited as the driving force behind two landmark singles in the hip hop genre; "Rapper's Delight" (1979) and "The Message l"(1982) by Grandmaster Flash which caused her to be dubbed "The Mother of Hip- Hop"

j6n4E TIL If our Sun was of the size of a red blood cell, the Milky Way would be as big as the continental United States