Post * W71vo — Curious Curator

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TIL that Condoleezza Rice, former US Secretary of State, has been a member of the Kiss Army since 2008

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6QbY TIL that when played together, the McBain clips from The Simpsons form a coherent mini-movie

QJNme TIL that GSG 9, the elite German police unit, completed 1500 missions between 1972-2003, in which they only used their weapons five times

rRLye TIL of the Tibetan blackbird, living in the Himalayas. As a type of bird called a thrush its genus classification is "Turdus" (Latin for "thrush"). And since the Tibetan blackbird is larger than the common blackbird, it has been given the species name "Turdus Maximus."

9Y9R6 TIL some marine isopods have alpha males which are large and guard a harem of females, and beta and gamma males which pretend to be females or juveniles to sneak in to the harem and mate with the his females

OG087 TIL of Nakahama Manjirō, a 14-year-old fisherman who was shipwrecked on an island with four friends. They were rescued by an American whaleship, who took them to Honolulu, where his friends stayed. Manjirō continued on to Massachusetts and become the first Japanese person to land on mainland USA.