Post * VMLXp — Curious Curator

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TIL The dog who played Wishbone on the hit 1990s kids show of the same name was called "Soccer" and he was a veteran TV commercial star before appearing on the series. He lived from 1988-2001 and is buried on the Texas ranch where the show was filmed.

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78V1b TIL Gary Larson (Far Side cartoonist), has a species of chewing lice named after him, Strigiphilus Garylarsoni

k54W TIL Henry Ford popularized charcoal briquettes after he noticed noticed a large amount of his money being wasted on wood used in the manufacturing process of his model A cars. Ford passed off the briquette business to a relative named Kingsford and the rest is history.

LQ5gv TIL that most of the trains in the North Korean capital Pyongyang are actually reused trains from the Berlin metro.

awpwJ TIL: “Shoeless” Joe Jackson was illiterate. In restaurants, rather than ask someone to read the menu to him, he would wait until his teammates ordered and then order one of the items that he heard.

VMkJD TIL that the Germans tried banning the Americans from using shotguns during WWI, a weapon most notably used for clearing trenches with devestating efficiency.