Post * WkjX8 — Curious Curator

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TIL that in 2006 Bill Murray (56 at the time) accepted an invitation to a college party in the Scottish Town of St. Andrews after a round of golf. He showed up, drank their vodka, did all the dishes and left

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XNnk TIL Some breakfast cereals, like Wheaties, are fortified with enough iron that individual flakes can be lifted and carried using common magnets.

Z8boG TIL The first song ever played on the lunar surface was "Fly Me to the Moon" by Frank Sinatra. Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon, took the cassette with him on the mission, and subsequently he played it off when he stepped onto the moon's surface shortly after Armstrong.

oB6Po TIL a study in 2014 found men are generally more spiteful than women and young adults more spiteful than older ones, and that spitefulness generally cohabits with traits like callousness, Machiavellianism and poor self-esteem.

VBQdD TIL during an 12 year period from 1822 to 1833, four future US Presidents would all be born within the state of Ohio - Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, and Benjamin Harrison

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