Post * XEpVj — Curious Curator

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TIL After 3 years at Harvard, Gabe Newell dropped out to join Microsoft in 1983. He later said: "I learned more in 3 months at Microsoft than in my entire time at Harvard"

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1KD7 TIL In A.D. 350, Pope Julius I, bishop of Rome, proclaimed December 25 the official celebration date for the birthday of Christ.

yB1w TIL that the second Indiana Jones film is actually a prequel to the first film. Temple of Doom was set in 1934, 2 years before the events of Raiders.

eMxn TIL Rick and Morty started as The Adventures of Doc and Mharti, “a pornographic vandalization,” of Back to the Future where “Doc Brown urges Mharti that the solution to all of his problems is to give him oral sex.”

LXZQ TIL that The Vidocq Society - a group of amateur detectives inspired by the real life Sherlock Holmes - investigate and often solve exceedingly difficult cases.

xJbo TIL on this date in 1903 in Kitty Hawk, NC the Wright Brothers had the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot aboard.