Post * PYGKw — Curious Curator

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TIL of the word defenestrate, which means to throw (something or someone) out of the window

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gBOX TIL That Mr Burns telephone greeting in The Simpsons, ‘Ah-Hoy!’ was actually how Alexander Graham Bell thought people should answer the telephone when he invented it.

J1gPj TIL People born in American Samoa, which has been held by the United States for more than 120 years, are not automatically citizens of the United States.

B8gL TIL That in 2000, a Mexican woman successfully performed a C-section on herself with a kitchen knife and 3 glasses of hard liquor, while her husband was drinking at a bar.

pxp4 TIL that modern flat glass is created by floating molten glass over molten tin. This is what gives glass its uniform, smooth surface.

Wkkjo TIL about "world's humblest president" José Mujica, former president of Uruguay, who drove a $1800 VW Beetle to work, donated most of his presidential salary to charities for the poor, and opted to lived on his farm instead of the presidential palace.