Post * l7L9B — Curious Curator

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TIL Jingle Bells was originally called “The one horse opened sleigh” and was written as a Thanksgiving or Drinking song.

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wLRYP TIL that in 1965, California City, located in the mojave desert, was designed to be a metropolis built to rival Los Angeles. But lack of funds caused the city to never be built. The city currently has a population of around 15,000, and has a size of 125 square miles.

woewY TIL the famous grand staircase of the Titanic has no known photos; and that the pictures that depict it are actually of the RMS Olympic's grand staircase, as they are hypothesized to be similar.

Alr7 TIL that Time Magazine readers voted Anonymous the most influential group out there, barely beating out Reddit.

0dvPy TIL there's special blood for babies

xV4X5 TIL the Lakota Indian known as Curly had a vision that he would be protected in battle. When he was subsequently wounded he realised the vision hadn't shown scalping, so he never scalped again. He went on to be known as Crazy Horse and helped defeat Custer at Little Big Horn.