Post * j99X — Curious Curator

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TIL Bob Marley’s father was a white English guy, who was 60 years old when he impregnated the singer’s black African mother. She was just 18 at the time. His father provided financial support for the family, but rarely saw his son, and he passed away at the age of 70 when Bob was 10 years old.

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R45a TIL: The soft inner part of bread is called the Crumb, not to be confused with crumbs

XOVr TIL that when a sample of radiologists were asked to examine a stack of CT scans for nodules indicative of cancer, 83% of them failed to notice a gorilla photoshopped into some of the images.

YwlP TIL that hurricane names have already been set for the next 6 years. Find out if your name is on the hurricane name list!

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