Post * Ykkr — Curious Curator

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TIL that if you click “I’m Feeling Lucky” in Google, with no text on the search bar, you can see every single variation of the Google logo through the years.

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7rbnr TIL that Bruceploitation was a practice where filmmakers hired Bruce Lee lookalikes to cash in on his popularity after his death. Some actors even changed their names to sound similar to Bruce Lee

V9yD TIL that after needing 13 liters of blood for a surgery at the age of 13, a man named James Harrison pledged to donate blood once he turned 18. It was discovered that his blood contained a rare antigen which cured Rhesus disease. He has donated blood a record 1,000 times and saved 2,000,000 lives.

b66Ea TIL The 1836 Independent Republic of Texas included land as far north as what is now Wyoming.

Wl7L TIL President Harry S. Truman’s administration purposely infected the people of Guatemala with syphilis after WW2.

0wyQN TIL that scientists from the World Meteorological Organization developed six lists of twenty-one (21) names for tropical storms and hurricanes that rotate each year. Each letter of the alphabet has a name for a storm except Q, U, X, Y, and Z. Right now, we are on letter C, Cristobal.