Post * l7BN — Curious Curator

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TIL SpaceX launched a wheel of cheese into orbit to honor Monty Python.

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5YONr TIL Nashville, TN isn't referred to as the "Athens of the South" because of its full size replica of the Parthenon, but because it was the first American southern city to establish a public school system in the 1850s

LQN80 TIL dancing is prohibited and punishable by law in Germany during religious holidays, like Easter

KYa TIL Haystacks sometimes spontaneously combust if they contain too much moisture.

4v66 TIL Alan Rickman staunchly defended Kevin Costner’s much criticized accent in Robin Hood, stating that 20th-century colloquial American was a lot closer to 12th-century Anglo-Saxon than modern British English.

9A0M TIL that in Michigan, you are never more than 6 miles from a natural water source. This is due to Michigan’s nearly 65,000 inland lakes and ponds. You are also never more than 85 miles from one of the Great Lakes.