Post * bw5Z — Curious Curator

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TIL When George RR Martin writes, he does not know the ending of his own ongoing story, feeling “if I know exactly where a book is going, I lose all interest in writing it.”

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8eLNP TIL that if your SSN was issued before 2011 it reveals where you lived when you got your number. The first 3 digits correspond to a specific state.

VMn4Q TIL that James Michael Tyler only got the role of Gunther the barista in 'Friends' because he was the only extra who actually knew how to use a cappuccino machine. He would go on to portray the character in 144 of the show's 238 episodes, and he still receives residuals from his work on the show.

Y48r TIL that during WWII, other candy manufacturers donated their sugar rations to keep Life Savers in production so that the little candies could be shared with Armed Forces as a “tasty reminder of life at home”.

kO1dg TIL that in 1939, George Dantzig, arrived late for class and assumed that the two problems written on the board was a homework assignment. When turning it in, he apologized for taking long to finish; it turned out that he had solved two estwhile unsolved / unproved problems in statistics.

jXma TIL Jif natural peanut butter has to be labeled as “peanut butter spread” because it doesn’t meet the FDA requirements for peanut content–its “non-peanut ingredients” exceed 10 percent.