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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OLyR TIL Churchill in WW2 ordered all German Air Ambulances, painted white with red cross (Seenotdienst Search and Rescue) to be shot down when encountered

l71d7 TIL the Miami Heat’s “Vice” basketball jerseys surpassed the sales of every other NBA team’s jerseys combined

4XKeo TIL that there are fake towns and roads (known as "paper towns") that mapmakers put in their maps, so that if someone makes a map which has one of these paper towns, they could know it's a copy

oBZn7 TIL that NASA considered using motorcycles on the moon as a simpler alternative to the Lunar Rover.

M7pn0 TIL Plastic surgery performed as early as 1600 BCE.