Post * j6g9j — Curious Curator

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TIL to move partially completed airplane fuselages, Airbus uses a custom-built giant plane called the Beluga Super Transporter

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YpplA TIL The crypt of the United States Capitol Building, which currently houses the Magna Carta Case and various statues, was once used as bicycle parking.

9YmZG TIL That there is over 7.2 million foxes in Australia thanks to British settlers who imported them in for the purpose of fox hunting

MPeB TIL that the Yakuza, Japan’s largest organized crime syndicate, provided food, water, blankets, diapers, etc. during both the 1995 and 2011 Japanese Earthquakes and at a much faster response time than even the Japanese Government.

wLv7P TIL Chuck Berry's hit song Roll Over Beethoven was inspired by how his sister always used the family piano to play classical music when Berry wanted to play popular music. The title refers to how classical composers would roll in their graves upon hearing rock and roll.

oRPK8 TIL that after the American Revolution, British Sir Guy Carleton argued with George Washington who wanted Carleton to return American slaves that Carleton felt obliged to free. Carleton freed the slaves and promised that Britain would compensate the slave owners, but Britain never did.