Post * jNA0R — Curious Curator

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TIL tennis player Arthur Ashe was offered “Honorary White” status in South Africa during apartheid but he refused and explicitly demanded to be booked as a black man when he visited and played in South Africa.

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PJgn TIL that in 1994 a Boy Scout named David Hahn attempted to make a neutron “gun,” and dangerously irradiated himself and his neighborhood in the process until his arrest.

NwLN TIL male trees lacking a female mate are often responsible for allergies (the equivalency of “blue balls” in animals, except with super pollination)

Z8L1o TIL After losing a the trademark "Big Mac", Burger King renamed its sandwiches to troll McDonald's

9gjQ TIL that our solar system is ‘unusual’ in that it only has one star, more than half of the stars in the sky are binary or triple, Jupiter could have been our second star

Yx1d TIL Disney studios used a multiplane camera which moves a number of pieces of artwork painted on glass past the camera at various speeds and at various distances from one another to create a three-dimensional effect.