Post * OGLaL — Curious Curator

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TIL in 2005, Jordanian couple Bakr and Sanaa Melhem unknowingly dated each other on the Internet. Both divorced when they learned each other's true identity

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b6yL7 TIL that deaf children have great difficulty learning to read; and high school seniors are likely to read at the level of a nine-year old.

yVQdv TIL Charles Burgess Fry most famous for captaining the English cricket team has also appeared in an FA cup Final for Southampton and equalled the world record for long-jump. Fry also published 9 books and was given the rank of captain in the RNR and also reputedly turned down the throne of Albania

mxLLM TIL that the creators of the Game of Thrones TV series, Benioff and Weiss, had no prior experience in television and only limited experience writing movie scripts. Their original pilot episode was so poorly received at test screenings that HBO demanded that they re-shoot 90% of it.

dDvAj TIL The actual origin of the word Lyric stems from poetry recited alongside someone playing a Lyre in Ancient Greece.

VybQ TIL When Frank Sinatra’s son was kidnapped the kidnappers demanded that all communication be on payphones.Sinatra was concerned he wouldn’t have enough change to complete the calls. He carried a roll of dimes with him at all times for the rest of his life; he was buried with ten dimes in his pocket.