Post * j6rn — Curious Curator

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TIL in the early 90’s a naturist student at Berkley went to school naked everyday until the laws changed and he was thrown out.

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neEXB TIL: Dwayne Johnson "aka: The Rock" began his acting and wrestling career after being cut from the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League. He would later say "Sometimes, your biggest dreams that don’t come true are the best things that never happened."

dDal9 TIL Mel Gibson is actually American and moved to Australia as a young boy and eventually decided to stay in Australia for good. I always asummed he was an Australian that did an amazing "American accent"

9Y9xG TIL Egyptian lawyers were banned from Roman courts during the time Rome ruled over Egypt. This is because they mocked Roman judges and their decisions. Some even made up jokes and songs to defend political prisoners.

v1QpR TIL of the unlucky voyage of Soyuz 23, a Soviet spacecraft that unintentionally "splashed-down" in a frozen lake. They spent nine hours in the cabin waiting to be lifted out of the water, and an additional two hours before the responders realized they were alive inside

wLXQ1 TIL a critical mass of uranium assembled itself in what is now Gabon, forming the first and only natural nuclear reactor in history. It fissioned for hundreds of thousands of years before fizzling out.