Post * oR77Y — Curious Curator

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TIL that Hans Zimmer was in The Buggles historic "Video Killed The Radio Star." He's the keyboardist in the black jacket.

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xVVab TIL that an estimated one in four cowboys were black.

E5y7 TIL The man who invented aikido was a samurai who became a pacifist & refused to fight for Japanese imperialism. He then became a hermit, lived on a mountain sitting under a tree.

V4KD TIL that blind people can get a miniature guide horse if they don’t want a guide dog or are allergic to dogs.

JYmEQ TIL Paul Van Doren, one of the founders of shoe company Vans, dropped out of school at the age of 14, when he was in the eighth grade. Interested in horses, he went to the race tracks every day. His mother then insisted that he get a job in a shoe factory.

Jdd8 TIL that domain names were free until 1995.