Post * ZkV4 — Curious Curator

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TIL that in 1999, it took Google 1 MONTH to crawl and build an index of about 50 million pages. On the contrary, the same task was accomplished in less than 1 MINUTE a just over a decade after!

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0woON TIL a sexually mature male duck is called a drake

BgalK Today I learned that in the "Yankee Doodle" song, "macaroni" does not refer to pasta. It is an 18th-century description of men who dress effeminately.

b6roZ TIL Uranus had been observed and catalogued multiple times going as far back as 128 BCE. However, due to its very slow orbit and dimness it was always misclassified as a star until 1781. The discovery that it was actually a planet effectively doubled the size of the known solar system.

rNamM TIL: Art was once an Olympic sport. This was proposed by Pierre de Coubertin (Founder of modern games) Between 1912 and 1948 medals were given out for sporting-inspired masterpieces of architecture, music, painting, sculpture and literature.

oRWrK TIL Jim Carrey won back-to-back acting Golden Globe awards (The Truman Show & Man on the Moon) without receiving an Oscar nomination for either of them and he still has never been nominated for an Oscar.