Post * R7bo8 — Curious Curator

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TIL the last claim under the 1866 Homestead Act, which entitled a person to free frontier land if they lived on it for five years and built a farm, was made on 80 acres near the Stony River in Alaska in 1979.

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e04MJ TIL the first computer mouse was wooden, created in 1964 and named "X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System"

RJ78 TIL. A japanese train station which stayed open for years so that its one commuter could get to school has shut down recently because the girl student graduated.

xOk5 TIL that during WWII, the Gestapo’s most wanted person was New Zealand born Allied agent Nancy Wake. Among her numerous exploits, she killed an SS soldier with her bare hands, to prevent him from raising the alarm during an undercover raid.

YpOgZ TIL Kobe Bryant’s parents named him after the famous beef of Kobe, Japan, which they saw on a restaurant menu.

W7dpY TIL that the once-ubiquitous "Mmm... Toasty!" Quiznos sandwich chain, which had 4700 locations in 2007, closed over 90% of their stores in the space of the following decade. It was the largest and fastest collapse in industry history.