Post * aOZL — Curious Curator

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TIL that Vanna White hasn’t actually turned any letters since 1997, hasn’t wore an outfit more than once on the show and holds the Guinness World Record for clapping.

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b6kAp TIL Van Halen's David Lee Roth wrote the song "Panama" (which is about a fast car) as a response to being accused of only writing about women, parties, and fast cars. He realized he had never written a song about a fast car, so he wrote one.

ja8v TIL that in 2003, two men stole an empty Boeing 727 from the Luanda International Airport and flew it into the sunset. They have never been found.

WkeNL TIL there are 7 days in a week thanks to the Babylonians, who lived in modern-day Iraq. As keen observers of the heavens, the Babylonians adopted 7 days because they observed 7 celestial bodies — the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

kJojd TIL that Canada still has 91% of the forest cover that it had at the beginning of European settlement

0A0p TIL: Margaret Anne Cargill was a philanthropist born into one of the wealthiest families in the world. She gave away more than $200M during her life, always anonymously, and provided that after her death all her wealth go to charity. In 2011 her assets were liquidated, resulting in a $6B donation.