Post * XED5D — Curious Curator

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TIL that Lorenzo Music, the voice of Garfield, would volunteer at a suicide hotline. Callers would sometimes change their tone to remark, "Hey, you sound just like that cat on TV!".

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BgM8W TIL about Kessler Syndrome, which describes the exponential growth of space debris, as collisions between space junk create smaller and difficult-to-track pieces of debris that contaminate our orbital real estate.

ejJk TIL - Dunbar’s Number is 148, the predicted human “mean group size” of the limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships.

va64 TIL that the nonprofit Goodwill pays its disabled workers pennies an hour while the CEO makes up to a quarter of a million dollars a year, all because of a 75 year old federal loophole.

R4X1 TIL Richard Nixon proposed to his wife on their first date. He pursued her for two years before she said yes. He even drove her on dates with other men during that time, hoping to win her over.

0wKe1 TIL that David Bowie's performance of Heroes at Berlin in 1987 is considered by some as one of the major incidents that eventually lead to the collapse of the Berlin Wall.