Post * NXn8e — Curious Curator

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TIL that Steve Jobs had tendency to eat only one or two foods, like carrots or apples, for weeks at a time

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XKa8 TIL Serena and Venus Williams were 16 and 18 years old when they challenged any man outside the top 200 best tennis players in the world to beat them, Karsten Braasch the 203 player accepted the challenge and defeated them with 6-1 and 6-2, they later changed it to beating anyone outside of top 350.

6EL7 TIL: “Grave of the Fireflies” and “My Neighbour Totoro” were originally released as a double billing.

nvLP TIL Wikitravel specifically warns visitors to Kazakhstan not to mention Borat.

OGj1g TIL Red Foxx helped Pat Morita with the down payment of his home with no IOU but to pay it forward. Morita would later help a young man for the same amount, an upcoming comedian named Robin Williams.

bNd9 TIL dolphins have been recorded having conversations in which they alter volume and frequency of pulsed clicks to form individual “words” which they string together into sentences in much the same way that humans speak. Each dolphin would listen to a sentence without interruption before replying.