Post * YLPG — Curious Curator

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TIL That both Jedi Master Yoda and Miss Piggy are voiced by the same actor.

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NX59Q TIL - All Earth tides originate in the southern oceans, the only place on Earth where a circumventing wave resulting from the tidal force of the Moon can travel with no restrictions from land barriers.

JYAov TIL that up to 12 karaoke singers in the Philippines have been killed while singing Frank Sinatra's My Way

0d9Vy TIL a priceless Roman marble bust was sold at a Texas Goodwill for $35

OGZlY TIL that the very first technical publication by famed Computer Scientist Donald Knuth was the "Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures". It measured Volume in 'ngogn', mass in 'blintz', and time in units of 'clarke'. It was published in of Mad Magazine in 1957, and earned him $25.

VMdeB TIL about Judge Dread, the first white man who had a reggae hit in Jamaica. Only Bob Marley sold more reggae music in the UK during the 70s. Before he worked as a wrestler "The Masked Executioner", a dept collector and security guy for the Rolling Stones. He died walking off the stage in 1998.