Post * WkADN — Curious Curator

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TIL over 300,000 of the 16 million Americans who served during World War II are still alive as of 2020

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7rWEO TIL that Dickens' A Christmas Carol is largely responsible for modern Christmas Celebrations

LOpv TIL Lindsay Lohan is only worth 50 000, down from her previous $30 million.

KYvn9 TIL in 1914 a boy threw a tennis ball that got stuck high up in an archway of the Lincoln Cathedral. Over 90 years later, the boy's nephew wrote a letter to the cathedral asking if he could have it back, though secretly hoping the cathedral would notice it and leave it in place.

ADELo TIL of Cymburga, a 15th Century Polish princess who became the female ancestor of all later Habsburgs. She was "renowned both for her beauty and for her ability to drive nails into oak planks with her bare fists."

b6eRa TIL the godmother of rock n roll was a black woman, Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Active in the 1930s, she predated (and inspired) artists from Elvis to Beyoncé