Post * neG8W — Curious Curator

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TIL rapper Ice Cube converted to Islam in the mid-1990s. This is why, in his song "It Was A Good Day", his momma cooked the breakfast with no hog - because Muslims don't eat pork.

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vDVD TIL During WW2, a Cambridge professor accidentally dropped the entire United Kingdom supply of plutonium (10mg) onto a table. He sawed a hole around the spill and burned that bit of table, recovering 9mg from the Ashes. He was found out because he was too tired to fix the table.

W0yY TIL Improbable Research tested the limits of the United States Postal Service by sending a variety of unusual unpackaged items then documenting how many were delivered.

d8j9E TIL that the distance from the top of Africa to the bottom (5000 miles) is the same distance as London to Beijing, China (5055 miles). Senegal in west Africa is closer to Jamaica across the Atlantic than Somalia in east Africa.

7rJa7 TIL that the Ocean sunfish (in french we call it: moonfish) is one of the heaviest known bony fishes in the world, weighing up to a ton, for an average length of 1.8 m (5.9 ft).

6EBJX TIL that Tammi Terrell, famous for songs such as Ain't no mountain high enough" and "Ain't nothing like the real thing", died at the age of 24 from a brain tumour.