Post * VOBB — Curious Curator

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TIL Canada nicknamed their first space telescope the “Humble Space Telescope”

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jdZN TIL that a white mailman was murdered in Mississippi in 1963 while walking to the governor’s mansion to deliver a letter condemning segregation.

gM7RD TIL that the first person to die in the American Revolution was African-American.

R76x1 TIL that the Pirates of the Caribbean ride opened at Disneyland in 1967 and the movies are based on the ride

lOVN TIL that as of 2013 two hundred thousand (200,000) were interned in North Korea’s “Auschwitz-Like” concentration camps.

KYb1Q TIL that the dust jacket of a first edition The Great Gatsby, is worth far more than the book.