Post * RBE4 — Curious Curator

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TIL Doug Funnie from Nickelodeon’s ‘Doug’ was originally a character in Florida grapefruit juice commercials.

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XE8yP TIL of Leona Woods, the only woman physicist on the team which built the world's first nuclear reactor as part of the Manhattan Project. She became a mother during the Project but hid her pregnancy as not to miss work. Afterwards as a professor, she authored >200 papers in physics and astrophysics.

e0QnD TIL that in Japan, you give gifts with both hands and you receive gifts with both hands

6EQnl TIL the world’s richest regions, such as North America and Europe, are not only increasing their forest area but also have more forests than they did prior to industrialization.

7rK4O TIL the grammatical rule against ending a sentence with a proposition was first stated by John Dryden, recommended Shakespeare's works be rewritten to remove style impurities.

d8G4K TIL the first time Led Zeppelin licensed one of its songs for commercial use was giving the song "Rock And Roll" to Cadillac for a television commercial. The band earned a "ridiculous" fee for this but Cadillac saw sales increase by 16% the following year.