Post * WG4A — Curious Curator

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TIL that George RR Martin owns two modest homes on the same street. One he lives in, and the other he uses to store he and his wife’s collectible figurines.

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GAL8Q TIL Autumn colour vibrancy depends on temperature variation balance. Sunny days with cool, crispy (not freezing) nights result in best colors. Daylight produces sugars, cool nights break down chlorophyll (green), non-freezing Temp traps the sugar in the leaves, and sugar concentration leads to color

E7xW TIL that in 67 AD, Roman Emperor Nero was in such deep mourning over the death of his late wife Poppaea Sabina that he castrated and married a young man who bore an uncanny resemblance to her and even started calling him by his late wife’s name.

AlGg TIL that the word seventeen-lettered contains exactly seventeen letters. This makes it autological, meaning the word describes itself.

LkbKV TIL: Due to the UK's share of the global Forex market, more money passes through London each day than all of North America and Continental Europe combined

LQ6XZ TIL following the success of the National Lampoon's Animal House, Mad magazine lent its name to the comedy film, Up the Academy but it was such a commercial and critical failure that Mad arranged for all references to the magazine to be removed from future TV and video releases of the film.