Post * OovVe — Curious Curator

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TIL The little yellow dots in Pack-an are meant to be cookies.

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8aR4G TIL In 1929 hockey player Eddie Shore, after missing his train, drove 350 miles through a blizzard to a game. The car's chains broke twice, the wipers broke, he removed the top half of the windshield, and crashed into a ditch. He still made it and scored the game's only goal.

grme7 TIL when Guns N’ Roses were making the song “Sweet Child o' Mine”, producer Spencer Proffer suggested adding a breakdown at the song’s end. The band agreed, but were not sure what to add. Axl Rose then started saying to himself, "where do we go? where do we go now?” And thus, the breakdown was born.

jNDER TIL the United Kingdom holds the record for the number of 2nd place finishes in the Eurovision song contest. Ireland holds the record for the number of wins, and Norway holds the record for being the worst performing country.

Ooaga TIL original wild bananas contained large seeds, but humans bred them to have tiny seeds for easier consumption.

OWpR TIL In Japan, if someone is photographed or filmed while handcuffed, their hands have to be pixelated if it is used on TV or in the newspapers. In France, a law prohibits media from airing images of people in handcuffs, or otherwise restrained, before they have been convicted by a court.