Post * N750P — Curious Curator

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TIL Serena Williams was disqualified from the 2009 U.S. Open tournament for threatening a line judge.

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oYG7 TIL: Detroit Fire Department is so underfunded they use soda cans filled with loose change as fire alarms

Y7Xnd TIL: GPS satellites are far enough away from earth that time moves slower for them, so they are pre-corrected to compensate for relativity using Einstein's calculations.

Wknwd TIL that in 2013, Metallica performed a concert in Antarctica to a group of 120 scientists and contest winners; thereby becoming the first and to-date only band to have performed on all seven continents.

kObA4 TIL Jerry Lawson pioneered home video gaming in the 1970's by helping to invent the Fairchild Channel F, the first system with interchangeable cartridges. One of few black engineers in computing at the time, he unfortunately received less recognition than deserved due to the Channel F's poor sales.

Z8JwY TIL In 2009, a retired policeman called Geraint Woolford was admitted to Abergale Hospital in north Wales and ended up next to another retired policeman called Geraint Woolford. The men weren’t related, had never met and were the only two people in the UK called Geraint Woolford.