Post * WbL9 — Curious Curator

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TIL: That hitting the ball around (and not over) the net in tennis is a completely legal move.

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oRVLL TIL: In Switzerland, it's illegal to own only one guinea pig

bR5j TIL Some fans of Star Trek: Voyager remember an episode where Chakotay died and was brought back several episodes later without explanation. When asked about this episode at a convention, Robert Beltran said that his character had never died, and that he had no memory of such an episode.

1AQr TIL Orson Welles once hired an all-black cast playing MacBeth in 1948, trying to give black actors a chance without being funny or exotic, playing the classics.

6EwDW TIL that a 2012 study found 1,458 “new to science” bacteria species in our belly buttons. People’s bacterial profiles are unique, like fingerprints, and can be used in the same way. One person had a bacterium only ever found in Japanese soil," where he had never been.

ADLBl TIL the Aegean Sea is named after Aegeus, father of Theseus. Aegeus told Theseus to put up white sails when returning if he was successful killing the Minotaur. Theseus forgot & Aegeus subsequently drowned himself in the sea.