Post * Plbw — Curious Curator

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TIL: Two kids spent two years recreating Toy Story in it’s entirety shot by shot.

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WEg8 TIL there’s a city in Georgia with 90 miles of golf cart paths parallel to the normal road network. More than 9000 families in Peachtree City use golf carts as their second car.

xglb TIL that baseball player Gaylord Perry’s manager once remarked that “They’ll put a man on the moon before he hits a home run.”. On July 20, 1969, just an hour after the Apollo 11 spacecraft carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, Perry hit the first home run of his career

YpgJW TIL that when Danes living under Prussian rule were prohibited from raising the Danish flag, the bred a pig to look like the flag instead, called the Danish Protest Pig.

kJ6vd TIL Halloween came from an Irish pagan festival -- and people used to carve faces in turnips, not pumpkins

epBnL TIL A US Navy red cell kidnapped a civilian security officer as an exercise and proceeded to torture and beat him in a hotel room. The officer's wife nearly shot the members of the red cell, but the officer told her it was an exercise rather than a real kidnapping.