Post * gMJY7 — Curious Curator

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TIL About RAS Syndrome, Redundant Acronym Syndrome, like when people say PIN Number or ATM Machine.

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KxlG TIL of The Thing - a listening device in a carving of the Great Seal of the United States. A gift from the USSR to the US, it hung in the embassy for 7 years. It contained no electronics and would activate when a radio signal of the correct frequency was transmitted to it.

wBxE TIL: When bottle feeding a kitten, you should NEVER put the kitten on their back. Doing so can cause the kitten to drown.

VKjD TIL that Samuel Jackson took Martin Luther King Sr. hostage during an equal rights protest in Memphis, Tennessee.

4yKo TIL a man named Ratanlal Maloo, created an artificial sanctuary for the migratory Demoiselle Cranes in Rajasthan, India by feeding them every year over a span of 40 years. Their numbers increased from 80, 40 years ago, to 15000 in 2011.

L7yQ TIL Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, after a late night of drinking, made a bet that if he called the Zappos hotline, the employee would be able to locate the nearest late-night pizza delivery. He did this to show how good his company’s customer service was, and he was right.