Post * OYvg — Curious Curator

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TIL the trick move in three-card-Monte is so fast, you can’t follow the card even when you know the trick.

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awQ8A TIL Anthony Michael Hall was the youngest full cast member of Saturday Night Live at 17 years old. Eddie Murphy was 19 when he joined the cast.

woxlW TIL more Nevada residents were born in California than in Nevada itself.

awNjb TIL that the Old City of Jerusalem, one of the holiest sites on Earth for Christians, Muslims and Jews, is less than half a square mile in area. Central Park in NYC is 1.3 square miles.

R7le1 TIL during the French Revolution, Louis XVI ordered the arrest of a judge named D'Epremesnil. When the arresting officers came to the Palais de Justice, they did not know D'Epremesnil by sight, so all the judges stood up and cried "We are all D'Epremesnil!". No arrests were made that day.

p4Ep TIL that when The Beatles were at a British Embassy reception in Washington D.C., someone cut off a lock of Ringo’s hair as a souvenier. Ringo told an interviewer, “These diplomats just don’t know how to behave.”