Post * oRjdE — Curious Curator

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TIL that in 1983, West Indies opener Gordon Greenidge became the only cricketer marked “retired not out” in a Test. He had to leave the match to rush home as his 2-year-old daughter was dying. She tragically passed away two days later.

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AN7ka TIL that a higher % of people in Jamaica speak English, than in the USA.

VMZbk TIL the perfect Japanese pangram (a sentence using every letter of an alphabet once) is not a nonsensical phrase like "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" - It's actually a poem called the Iroha, which is considered so perfect it has provided the ordering of Japanese syllabary since 1079.

b4wZ TIL that scientists created a “quantum gas” that reached temperatures below absolute zero in which it exhibits characteristics similar to dark energy.

bEpZ TIL Rage Against The Machine was told to censor their song, “Killing In The Name” when playing it live on the BBC. They started out censoring it, but towards the end of the song “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me!” was repeated 5 times live before the BBC shut off the broadcast.

8eM44 TIL Timothy Treadwell lost out on the role of Woody on "Cheers"