Post * awO5o — Curious Curator

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TIL that wood can now be made stronger than steel and nearly as bulletproof as Kevlar (but at only 5% of the cost)!

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4Xobb TIL there once existed the Silver Republican Party, a US political party that split from the Republican Party in the 1890s over the issues of bimetallism and free silver. It disbanded in the early 1900s and most of its members joined the GOP, but some went to the Democrats.

rjw TIL that Summer was considered a bad time to release a movie in the theater because of low sales until Steven Spielberg’s JAWS.

Wkm09 TIL The Sopranos creators were often contacted by the FBI and told that actual mobsters, whose conversations were picked up by wiretaps, had plenty to say about the show. They considered the show's portrayal of the mob life so dead-on, they thought one of their own was was working on the inside.

QJWdX TIL In 1950, only 22 percent of American adults were single. Today, more than 50 percent of American adults are single.

XAp8 TIL One of Bill Clinton’s first jobs out of law school was working for the Dallas office of the 1972 George McGovern Campaign. He worked with Ron Kirk, Anne Richards, and Steven Spielberg; who went on to become Mayor of Dallas, Governor of Texas, and Steven Spielberg, respectively.