Post * QJJ9p — Curious Curator

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TIL about Friendship 500, a floating McDonalds made for Expo 86 in Vancouver

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0LpL TIL: Flowers didn’t exist until dinosaurs and mammals were already roaming the earth.

EGkp TIL Franklin D. Roosevelt’s image was put on the US dime, in part to honor his effort in founding the March of Dimes, a charity established to combat the spread of polio.

ZGjD TIL a study by British sociologists found 7 distinct social classes: Elite, Established middle class, Traditional working class, Technical middle class, Emergent service workers, New affluent workers and Precariat. Whom people know and what they do contribute to their class as much as income.

KELa TIL over a period of 200 years, 3 ships perished at the same location (off the coast of Wales), on the same day (December 5th), and each wreck had only 1 survivor. All 3 of the survivors were called Hugh Williams.

a8xRL TIL in 2010 that following an uproar after a mixed race student was not allowed to run for 6th grade class reporter, a Mississippi school district scrapped a long standing system of student elections which only allowed students of certain races to run for certain class positions.