Post * P4yZ — Curious Curator

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TIL Shaquille O'Neal, the genie from Kazaam, is also known for a career in basketball.

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jAVE TIL George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ and 'Animal Farm’ have together sold more copies than any two books by any other 20th-century author.

nkG9 TIL that to counter protest the Westboro baptist church, who were picketing outside the venue, the foo fighters dressed up in costume and performed on the back of a truck across from the protesters.

VM9OB TIL: Wilbur & Orville Wright's father gifted them a toy helicopter (based on an invention of French aeronautical pioneer Alphonse Pénaud). They played with it until it broke, and then built their own. They later pointed to their experience with the toy as the spark of their interest in flying.

j6omv TIL that "Zoozve", an asteroid and quasi-moon of Venus, is named for a typo on a children's poster when the artist misread the object's provisional designation "2002VE" as "ZOOZVE". A podcast host noticed it on his son's poster, asked the discoverer to submit the name to the IAU, which accepted it.

xoB1 TIL that four people have been estranged from the Phelps family (the one that heads the westboro baptist church). One of them, Nathan Phelps, considers himself an atheist and considers the WBC an organization for his father to “vent his rage and anger.” He now works to promote science and reason.