Post * gMLvD — Curious Curator

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TIL There is now technology built into some guns in America that allow a gun’s owner to control the safety-catch using their smartphone or tablet.

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9YDQD TIL There are only 23 words that date back 15,000 years and are considered the oldest known words in the English language. They are: thou, I, not, that, we, to give, who, this, what, man/male, ye, old, mother, to hear, hand, fire, to pull, black, to flow, bark, ashes, to spit, and worm.

epnAk TIL the then captain of the New York Yankees died in a plane crash in 1979. Thurmon Munson was named Captain in 1976, the team's first since Lou Gerhig (1939), won ROTY, gold glove 3x in a row, & led Yankees to 3 World Series from 1976 to 1978, winning in '77 & '78. He was 32 years old.

EEax TIL last year more people planned to shop on Black Friday than voted in the presidential election

KddJ TIL that Harrison Ford was a stagehand for The Doors.

ZpJnR TIL that throughout the 1600s, ports on the English Channel and south west of England were at the mercy of North African pirates. Men, women and children were kidnapped to be sold as slaves.