Post * gMeD — Curious Curator

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TIL that the United States tax code is four times longer than Shakespeare’s complete works

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kODOd TIL of Desert Bus, a computer game who's aim was to drive from Tucson to Los Vegas, on real time. This made it an 8 hour trip with no scenery and attention had to be paid as the bus would veer right. One trip between the cities would get you one point.

e0XeD TIL about the 1969 book "Naked Came the Stranger", a literary hoax - the book was written to be disjointed and terrible, but full of sex scenes, to prove that any book could succeed if enough sex was thrown in. The novel spent 13 weeks on the New York Times Best-Seller List.

4kAXX TIL Rwanda's Akagera national park is the largest protected wetland in Africa and safari destination with elephants, lions. But in 1997 it was reduced in size by close to 50% as the land was allocated to populations returning after the 1994 genocide

E1yW7 TIL Jaws star Robert Shaw rewrote the film's now-famous USS Indianapolis speech. He edited & reordering it, then wrote it into the form it is today. Turning the monologue into something unforgettable.

GYR1G TIL that most brands are actually owned by only 10 companies and competitors are usually actually part of the same company