Post * b9xaE — Curious Curator

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TIL that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and country singer George Strait are cousins.

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w6V1 TIL: Bourbon Whisky is America’s National Liquor

KZD9 TIL that when your foot or hand falls asleep it’s because of compressed nerves, not lack of blood flow

1aL07 TIL Ted Cassidy, who played "Lurch" on the 1964 TV show "The Addams Family," put out a record and appeared in a dance number on "Shindig"

D1RQg TIL Johnny Otis, a seminal influence on American R&B and rock and roll, lived his professional and personal life as a Black man despite the fact he was ethnically Greek. He wrote, "As a kid I decided that if our society dictated that one had to be black or white, I would be black."

mxjQp TIL that the the concept of "zero" was invented by a 6th century Indian mathematician named Aryabhata. He also theorized on the relativity of motion, worked on the approximation of π, and correctly advocated an astronomical model in which the Earth turns on its own axis