Post * OG69R — Curious Curator

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TIL scientists have confirmed that the largest body of water in the known universe is 12 billion years old. It surrounds a quasar, and has the equivalent of 140 trillion times all the water in the world’s ocean.

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QNWO6 TIL about the 1977 Washington DC hostage taking incident, where a slinter group of the Nation of Islam stormed city hall, a Jewish center, and as Islamic center. They took 149 hostages, two of whom were killed, and demanded the cancellation of a movie about the family of Mohammad.

E1aEo TIL that the cottage where Ulysses Grant finished his memoirs is now an historic monument and is kept how it was when he died. On his desk is a large bottle of liquid cocaine. Park rangers check it annually to make sure it is all there.

rN9Lo TIL The longest ever personal name was that of a German-born American called Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. His full, unabbreviated name is made up of 26 names, each starting with a different letter of the alphabet, in alphabetical order, followed by a 666-letter surname

oE0W TIL that NASA, during the Apollo program, had to rename urinal sleeves in sizes “small, medium, and large” to “large, gigantic, and humongous” because astronauts would only select large (regardless of their size) and the sleeves kept slipping off.

ADOp4 TIL that the night before the Miracle on Ice, American goalie Jim Craig and Soviet star forward Sergei Markov played the arcade game "Centipede" at the Olympic Village. The two could barely speak in each other's language, so they communicated with nods and laughs.