Post * kONo4 — Curious Curator

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TIL at the peak of the financial crisis of 2008 Volkswagen became the most valuable company in the world for one day despite being on the brink of bankruptcy

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pYep4 TIL that the Sojourner Mars rover is named after African American abolitionist Sojourner Truth through an essay contest and not because it was a temporary traveler, or sojourner, to Mars.

p84yb TIL Allee Willis was originally bothered by the 'ba-dee-ya' lyric in song 'September'. "I just said, 'What the fuck does 'ba-dee-ya' mean?' And [White] said, 'Who the fuck cares?' I learned my greatest lesson ever in songwriting from him, which was never let the lyric get in the way of the groove."

awQr0 TILA about the WW2 German War Graves on the British Army base on Thorney Island

9Ywwp TIL that there is a mushroom in Oregon that is roughly 2,400 years old, and has a root system that covers over three square miles of land.

XEr9X TIL that Morgan Robertson wrote a novel in 1898 about an ocean liner sinking in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg. That is 14 years before the Titanic sunk in the same place and in the same way. And if this was not enough, the novel was titled: "The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility".