Post * d8y4Q — Curious Curator

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TIL The 24 Hours of Le Mans traditionally begins with a "standing start", where drivers run to their car. Feeling this type of start was unsafe, Jacky Ickx opposed it by walking across the track while his competitors ran. He was nearly hit by a car, and another was killed. Ickx won the race.

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0dM6v TIL That The Script of Ferris Bueller's Day Off Includes Two Additional Bueller Children (Todd, M, 7 and Kimberly, F, 12) Who Weren't Included In The Movie

lL6K TIL it’s possible for amateur radio operators to call the ISS and even get a response from an off duty astronaut

16RQO TIL Alfred Jackson, who was Pres. Andrew Jackson’s slave, was born in the Hermitage, lived his whole life there even after he was freed, worked as a tour guide of the place, had his funeral in the mansion and was also buried there, next to Pres. Jackson’s tomb

Yp1Rv TIL A stone circle, thought to be thousands of years old, was discovered in Scotland. After investigation it turned out to be only 20 years old, put there by the previous farm owner.

kObGg TIL the creators of the album Dispepsi did not use its name, instead using anagrams like "Ideppiss", because they feared copyright infringements lawsuits from Pepsi. However, they started using the actual name after Pepsi lawyers told them they had no problem with that.