Post * R5LZ8 — Curious Curator

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TIL The First Lady of the United States, Lou Henry Hoover, became the first woman to receive a degree in geology from Stanford University.

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ADeA4 TIL the reason why businesses refer to the Super Bowl in their advertisements as "The Big Game" is because the NFL owns the trademark to the phrase "Super Bowl" and will severely crack down on any business that uses those words without officially licensing it from the NFL

E1g8x Or, which pepper will make the most hilarious YouTube video when you film yourself eating it?

vKjr TIL Terrence Howard (COL Rhodey in Iron Man 1) found out he did not get the part in Iron Man 2 from the Press then decided to finish his Chemical Engineering degree and now grows Diamonds

ne1dr TIL that Jane Goodall Became One of America's Most Notable Scientists — Without a College Degree. Thanks to a trip to Kenya in her early 20s, Goodall met Louis Leakey, who saw her passion for animals and ability to observe them as her biggest asset.

kOZxB TIL that while Sputnik was the first man-made object to reach orbit, 13 years earlier the Nazis launched the MW 18014 rocket, the first man-made object to reach outer space.