Post * YEB7 — Curious Curator

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TIL the president of Georgia (the country) fired the entire Georgian police force in 2005 because of its corruption.

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kJYX5 TIL Canon, written in the 17th Century by Johann Pachelbel, is well-known music often played at weddings and Christmas. But it was forgotten after it was written and languished in obscurity for centuries. It wasn't published until 1919; wasn't recorded until 1940; was virtually unknown until 1968.

Z8N4Y TIL the deep male voice behind the songs of Boney M. are from a German producer named Frank Farian, not from the 'main' frontman male 'vocalist' Bobby Farrell. Frank Farian was also the same guy that 'fabricated' the group Milli Vanilli, in which none of the frontman sang any lyrics of their tracks.

R85Q TIL That Russia Has Approved Construction of an Estimated $66B Tunnel Across the Bering Strait Starting Sometime After 2030, Making a Railway from New York to London a Possibility During This Century

VRgm TIL an uncontacted tribe still inhabits an island in the Indian Ocean, living as simple hunter-gatherers. They are vigorously hostile to outsiders, and have not yet developed early technologies such as agriculture or writing.

XEVRP TIL that the second woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, Maria Goeppert Mayer, had to work without pay for most of her career, and was referred to as S.D mother in newspaper headlines when she won her Nobel.