Post * lKG1 — Curious Curator

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TIL that Facebook engineers originally wanted to call the “Like” button the “Awesome” button.

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Po6w TIL if the Milky Way were the size of the United States, our solar system would be the size of a quarter

JYB4l TIL Muhammad Ali was stripped of his heavyweight title and faced a five-year prison term, at the height of the Vietnam War for refusing to fight. "I ain't got no quarrel with those Vietcong, they never called me n****r."

X04OX TIL while living in a French village in the 1950s, Irish playwright Samuel Beckett sometimes drove local children to school, including a young Andre the Giant and two bonded over their love of cricket, with Andre later recalling that the two rarely talked about anything else.

dmpj TIL that lawns began in England as a symbol of status; it showed that the owner could afford to keep land that was not being used for a building, or for food production.

vrvK TIL there is a sound effect of a woman on a police radio that has been used in countless movies,tv shows, videos games etc and nobody knows where it originated from or who the woman is.