Post * nnnb — Curious Curator

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TIL baseball managers sometimes yell nonsensical things at umpires (e.g “I had bad wine at an Italian restaurant”) to invigorate their team, while keeping themselves from being thrown out of the game.

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nbyr TIL the phrase ‘duck’, used in cricket to mean a score of zero, is short for 'duck’s egg’, referring to the shape of the number. 'Goose-egg’ is prevalent in U.S English while the French equivalent 'l'oeuf’ (egg) is the origin of 'love’, meaning zero in tennis.

e9Vb TIL Miracle Whip is a salad dressing, because the U.S. FDA requires that anything labeled as “mayonnaise” must contain a minimum of 65 percent vegetable oil by weight.

BZ4W TIL that author Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a 50,000 word novel without using the letter “e”. To this day it is considered one of the finest examples of constrained writing.

78oGO TIL that the quartet/quintet "The Drifters" had 60 members.

D11KJ TIL the worst maritime disaster in US history was Steamboat Sultana, where 1192 souls perished after its boilers exploded just outside Memphis. Not very many people heard about it since news coverage focused on the killing of John Wilkes Booth the previous day.