Post * e0nZk — Curious Curator

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TIL that Phillip J. Fry wasn't named in honor of Phil Hartman after all like Billy West once said, but after Matt Groening's father, Homer Phillip Groening. One in his children is also called Phillip.

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9Y1e6 TIL the reason why the top trim Toyota Tundra is named 1794 Edition is because the ranch that used to be on the land Toyota's Texan factory occupies was founded in 1794.

Bl9b TIL that, in order to communicate with the Shoshone tribe, Lewis and Clark would speak English to Corps member Francois Labiche, who would speak French to the interpreter Toussaint Charbonneau, who would speak Hidatsa to his Shoshone wife Sacagawea, who would speak Shoshone to Chief Cameahwait.

wolQ6 TIL General George S. Patton saved several children from drowning when they fell off a yacht during a boating trip off Salem, Massachusetts in 1923. He was a still a major at that time and was awarded the Silver Lifesaving Medal for this action.

OGQMa TIL the longest work in the English language is a The Loud House fan fiction with over 16 million words.

QLBk TIL in 1950, Pope Pius XII confirmed there was no conflict between Christianity and the theory of evolution, and the Church supports the idea of theistic evolution.