Post * WkvZ8 — Curious Curator

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TIL about grandma Shirley Curry, the world's oldest person to have a Youtube gaming channel. She fell in love with Skyrim back in 2014 and hasn't stopped playing ever since. She uploads videos almost daily

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DrpY TIL the removal of Skymall magazines saved American Airlines an estimated $350K per year in fuel costs.

xgND TIL a genetic study of people from Iceland found a number of them had a mutation predominantly found among Native Americans. It has theorised that this could be because of American women breeding with Viking men, during Norse exploration of America in the 11th century AD.

ANpMd Til: The world’s oldest wooden wheel has been around for more than 5,000 years

BrG6W TIL Hugh Thompson Jr., a US Army Major, helped ended the My Lai Massacre with his helicopter crew including Glenn Andreotta and Lawrence Colburn. They were remembered and revered in Vietnam with their depiction in the short Vietnamese film "The Sound of the Violin in My Lai".

R7eY8 TIL the term “the big apple” originally referred to horse racing. The city got its most famous nickname from a local newspaper’s horse racing column in the 1920s. Prior to the city’s adoption of the nickname, the phrase “Big Apple” was used to describe a big money prize at important horse races.