Post * kODVE — Curious Curator

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TIL that Jack White and Jack Black recorded a song together as Jack Gray

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Lk8mm Today I learned that Bill Nye (of Science Guy fame) invented a hydraulic component used on the 747 airliners, and holds three patents for other inventions.

epWkL TIL the International Phonetic Association, the organization who developed the International Phonetic Alphabet, was originally called 'Dhi Fonètik Tîtcerz' Asóciécon'

8GAX TIL that people have been calling each other ‘douche bags’ since the 60’s

x6E4w TIL About Cape Malays in South Africa. The descendants of enslaved and free Muslims from different parts of the world, specifically Indonesia (known then as the Dutch East Indies) and other SE Asian countries, who lived at the Cape during Dutch and British rule. There are 176,000 remaining.

b05Z TIL that in California, after 4 years of decline, CO2 emissions increased by 35% in 2012 due to the closure of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant.