Post * ne6gP — Curious Curator

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TIL Maury was previously a news anchor in Chicago, LA, San Francisco, Philly; is married to Connie Chung

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Eg8B7 TIL 5-division Boxing Champion James Toney claims to have knocked out a young Deion Sanders at football camp over bunk beds.

69478 TIL about the Ash Grove music club in Los Angeles. It was a mecca for blues and folk legends from 1958 to 1973. It influenced a generation of artists like Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger.

J16GV TIL that in one bestiality case in colonial Plymouth, sixteen-year-old Thomas Grazer was forced to point out the sheep he’d had sex with from a line-up; he then had to watch the animals be killed before he himself was executed.

PYw4V TIL that in Japan, a woman past the age of 25 was known as a "Christmas Cake" because, just like "cakes [that] go on discount once Dec. 25 rolls around", she was "considered past her prime."

X68R TIL the only American not on Earth during 9/11 [Frank L. Culberston] recorded the event from the ISS. He later learned that the pilot of the plane that struck The Pentagon was a classmate of his from the US Naval Academy [Charles Burlingame].