Post * QoGE — Curious Curator

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TIL: Nate Horton is the first (and likely to remain only) NHL player to be credited with a goal in an NHL game which he technically did not play.

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V6W8 TIL The most disliked video on YouTube is Justin Bieber’s “Baby,” with over 4,400,000 dislikes.

VBBwk TIL an orange tabby cat called Stubbs was the mayor of Talkeetna, a small town in Alaska for 20 years! He had several uncontested elections and although he didn’t hold any legislative power, he was loved by locals and tourists alike.

eRyJ TIL There are two mystery safes in Jersey City, NJ City Hall that are going to be cracked this Tuesday at noon. Nobody knows why they were secretly installed over 60 years ago.

NQk1 TIL: Yasuke, a 16th century African who traveled to Japan as a slave, caused such a sensation that a powerful warlord wished to see him. He thought his black skin was paint and ordered it to be scrubbed. However, they became friends and Yasuke was later given the prestigious rank of Samurai.

YBev TIL a castaway Japanese seaman wrote of his ordeal in a message in a bottle, which he threw into the ocean in 1784. It washed up in 1935 in the village where he was born.