Post * PYpKV — Curious Curator

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TIL Keanu Reeve’s first name Keanu is Hawaiian, Ke’Anu meaning “Cool breeze over the mountains, but almost went with Chuck Spadina as his stage name when starting out in Hollywood at his agents request

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J1Gm TIL that the ’S’ in Harry S. Truman’s name didn’t stand for anything, as it was a common practice among the Scots-Irish

neQPG TIL some of the slaves freed from Charleston SC during the civil war organized a March at a race track where union soldiers had died in what is known as the first memorial day observance (a year before other states, and 3 years prior to the first national observance).

nW7db TIL that drinking a four-ounce shot of vanilla extract is equivalent to doing four shots of vodka

P1nOn Today I learned that it rains more during a whole year in Rome (Italy) than in London (UK).

PQjV TIL that Salvador Dalí condemned clichés, stating: “The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.” Ironically, in stating this he himself was repeating the words of poet Gérard de Nerval.