Post * W7JAY — Curious Curator

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TIL the man who pioneered 24 hour broadcasting would also be responsible for John Lennon & Yoko Ono's Bed In, created Captain Canada, and demanded that Inspector Gadget be played during the evening news.

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Vo0G TIL that the company that produced the original Tomb Raider game wanted to include a nude cheat for Lara Croft but Toby Gard the lead designer refused to do this

neByP TIL about Wangari Mathaai, the first African Woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She founded the Green Belt movement that helped plant 30 million trees and empowered women to get involved in social change.

R70O7 TIL the preatorian guard held an auction for the roman emperorship. Didius Julianus,drunk from the night before had to be dragged from bed by his wife and daughter. He arrived late and was not allowed entry to the building the auction was taking place so he yelled his offer from outside. He won

lG1r TIL there’s a skyscraper that has a highway passing through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors in Japan. The tower is the result of a strange compromise between the land owner and the Japanese government. The owner wanted to redevelop the building but the government has already planned the expressway.

rEJ1 TIL American poet and activist Alice Dunbar Nelson was rejected by both the white and the black society because white people found she was “too black” and black people found she was “too white”.