Post * Wkjod — Curious Curator

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TIL: Only 5 countries in the world have never been under any sort of European control.

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VMKDp TIL Big Pimpin' was sampled from a 1950s Egyptian song

djYr TIL The highest quality software ever written was the code for the space shuttle, with 1 error for every 420,000 lines of code.

LngQ TIL: that when women were excluded from the World Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840 in London and forced to sit in a “no speaking section”, William Lloyd Garrison, the conference’s keynote speaker, refused to give his speech and sat with the women, “dominating the convention without saying a word”.

Bj1K TIL that Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” was originally called “Starlight” and the hook was “Give me some starlight! Starlight sun”.

VMREG TIL that clowns copyright their makeup by painting their faces on eggs. There is a clown egg registry in London.