Post * YyKP — Curious Curator

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TIL That to supplement his income while playing in the NFL, Terry Crews would paint his fellow teammates’ portraits.

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OvL1 TIL of Hajimi Fuji, who volunteered for the kamikaze but was refused acceptance because he had a wife and two young children. To honour his wish his wife drowned her two young girls and drowned herself. Hajimi then flew as a kamikaze pilot,meeting his death on the 28th May 1945.

WdVB TIL that in 500 million years there will be no more total eclipses due to the fact that the moon is drifting farther away

epA95 TIL there is a rhinoceros-shaped cave in Washington state, formed millions of years ago when lava cooled around a rhinoceros carcass.

bwg0 TIL for almost 2 decades, the American nuclear launch codes were: 00000000

b9oW7 TIL that James Cameron received a 'snarky' email from Neil DeGrasse Tyson regarding star placement in the movie Titanic. He complained they wouldn't have been the same ones as in 1912. James Cameron agreed to fix it.