Post * e0bM6 — Curious Curator

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TIL Modern sudoku was invented in the United States in the 1970s, became a phenomenon in Japan in the 1980s, but didn't appear in a U.S. newspaper until 2004

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p84G8 TIL Cartoon Network banned an episode of Cow and Chicken called "Buffalo Gals" which allegedly implied lesbian stereotypes including the Gals being mistaken for men and the line "Oh! the Buffalo Gals, a motorcycle riding gang that randomly breaks into people's homes and chews on their carpets."

AQan TIL Secret Service agents lived in Chelsea Clinton’s dorm, and posed as students, while she was an undergrad at Stanford

EgZ8x TIL that baleen whales have two blowholes but toothed whales only have one.

P1kGJ TIL that Charlie, from the 1971 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, never acted again, and recently retired from his large animal practice as a veterinarian.

Me9v8 TIL That Steak Tartare gets it's name from a 13th century myth that Mongols (called Tartars at the time) would ride with meat under their saddles to tenderize it, then eat it raw. Though the story was false and the chronicler who popularized it had never even encountered Mongols himself.