Post * VM6KZ — Curious Curator

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TIL that Everett Lee, born August 31, 1916, is an American conductor & violinist who was the first African American to conduct a Broadway musical & the first to conduct a performance by a major American opera company. He's still alive at 103.

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pvNQ TIL that there is a skyscraper in Manhattan that doesn’t have any windows at all

QN7YX TIL the lead singer of the 80s-90s band Living Colour, Corey Glover, was also in the 1986 movie Platoon.

YEDZ TIL: While the Titanic only had enough life boats to hold 1/3 of passengers, she was actually carrying more lifeboats than were legally required. That’s because lifeboats were intended to ferry survivors from a sinking ship to a rescuing ship—not keep afloat the whole population.

nE0G TIL That the popular series Red vs. Blue was captured using an in game glitch (Halo 1) that was later recreated (by Bungie) in Halo 2 for the sole benefit of the show.

QJ6JL TIL that 87 men died on the Potomac after two ships collided while searching for John Wilkes Booth after he assassinated Abraham Lincoln.