Post * Ybor — Curious Curator

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TIL that William Henry Jackson’s photos played an important role in convincing Congress in 1872 to establish Yellowstone National Park, the first national park of the U.S. He was in a position to capture the first photographs of legendary landmarks of the West.

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yQroa TIL fungi are 2.5 billion years old and are technically our ancestors

6L9Q TIL 50% of marriages no longer end in divorce. It’s more like 35% if you married in the ‘90s, and 15% if you married in the 2000s.

PNyg TIL Samuel Coleridge perceived the entire course of Kubla Khan, a poem, in a dream, but was interrupted by a visitor from Porlock while in the process of writing it. Kubla Khan was never completed. Thus “Person from Porlock” is an allusion to intruders who disrupt creativity.

Xl7j TIL that the Nintendo DS was the first video game console on Mt. Everest. It was one of the few pieces of electronic equipment that did not fail from the harsh conditions.

mxnaO TIL Raiders of the Lost Ark was originally going to have an elaborate fight scene between Indiana Jones and a master swordsman. But Harrison Ford was ill so they just had Indy pull out a gun and shoot him instead.