Post * VMlnm — Curious Curator

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TIL On his second day in office, President Jimmy Carter pardoned all of the Vietnam War draft evaders.

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yQ5xw TIL that the flavor Blue Raspberry is based on a real fruit, the whitebark Raspberry. Although the fruit’s actual color is a deep purple, the fruit provided a way for candy makers to use blue dye

PYMWV TIL that former MLB player Larry Walker was obsessed with the number 3. He set his alarm for 33 minutes past the hour, took practice swings in multiples of 3, wore the number 3, was married Nov 3 at 3:33pm, and once bought 33 tickets for disadvantaged kids to sit in section 333 of the ballpark.

ADKLn TIL Father of US Navy Admiral John Paul Jones fouhgt his last naval battles in the area of present-day Ukraine

YpPXr TIL in 2012, a borough in the city of London commissioned the design of a bench that was made to deter use for sleeping, littering, skateboarding, drug dealing, graffiti and theft. It has been called the "perfect anti-object" and a "masterpiece of unpleasant design".

j0XR TIL Angel’s share refers to the percentage of evaporated loss from every barrel of distilled spirits.