Post * ZpJ0B — Curious Curator

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TIL that Zion National Park, originally named Mukuntuweap National Monument by the U.S. Government, was renamed by early Mormon settlers who were inspired by the biblical Mount Zion, seeing the landscape as a natural temple of God.

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JYlbV TIL that on 6 may 1990, over 1.2 million people from Romania and the Republic of Moldova met at the border set on Prut river, as the restrictions were temporarily lifted. The event was known as the Bridge of Flowers. Many people brought flowers to meet the relatives they haven't seen in decades

80g4 TIL that in 1968, science fiction writer and atheist Isaac Asimov published “Asimov’s guide to the Bible”. Asimov treats the secular aspects of the Bible with intellectual instead of theological commentary.

x4a7 TIL Butterfly McQueen, one of the stars of “Gone with the Wind,” was unable to attend the film’s premiere because it was held in a whites-only theater

Y7y57 TIL that the late comedian Trevor Moore co-created two Disney Channel shows, Walk the Prank and Just Roll With It.

kJ5w4 TIL the word "boycott" comes from the name of an English landlord who was so loathed by his Irish community, they simply refused to work for or deal with him until he had no choice but to leave.