Post * kJAK5 — Curious Curator

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TIL about George Francis Train, a man who ran for president on a platform of "Spread-Eagleism."

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rRD00 TIL although the design of Ursula in The Little Mermaid is based in an octopus, she was drawn with six tentacles instead of eight to reduce animation costs

56Xr TIL that the expression “Yo” has been in use since the 16th century.

jN5Dp TIL the earliest recorded use of LOL as an initialism was for "little old lady" in the 1960s. During the Apollo mission, ferrite cores were used as transformers and acted as either a binary one or zero. The LOLs created the required software by weaving together sequences of one and zero cores.

xVwm1 TIL that Peter Pan has been owned by Great Ormond Street hospital since 1927 - the rights were gifted by the author

1pr8 TIL in 1994, Howard Stern talked a caller out of jumping off the George Washington Bridge as a nation listened