Post * Z9QB — Curious Curator

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TIL that Icelanders have no family names. Instead, their surname is just their father’s name plus “son” or “dottir”

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yQGPM TIL Christopher Robin began hating his bear and was upset by neglect from his father. AA Milne was preoccupied by a "dream son". "He had got where he was by climbing on my infant shoulders, that he had filched from me my good name and had left me with nothing but the empty fame of being his son".

OoebY TIL that Thomas Jefferson studied the Quran (as well as many other religious texts) and criticized Islam much as he did Christianity and Judaism. Regardless, he believed each should have equal rights in America

oRdrr TIL that of the 5 ships and 270 men who started the Magellan Expedition, only 1 ship and 18 men completed the circumnavigation of the Earth together. (17 others survived Portuguese capture and hard labor and returned later.)

xV17D TIL J.K. Rowling was the youngest self-made female billionaire

85vL TIL Richard Nixon refused to shake hands with anyone from San Francisco because he felt it was “the most faggy goddamned thing you could imagine.”