Post * pYDDA — Curious Curator

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TIL that actor Lance Henriksen (Aliens/Terminator) also makes and sells pottery.

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a88Qo TIL that research shows that people who laugh at dark jokes have higher IQs and report less aggressive tendencies .

lo97K TIL African dodger (or Hit the Coon or Hit the N***** Baby) was a carnival game played in the US, in which an African-American man would stick his head through a curtain, and try to dodge objects, such as eggs or baseballs, thrown at him by players. It was played until the 1950s.

M7oAK TIL Much like Zodiacs in the west, in Korea people look to Blood Types to infer personality traits.

yQPyw TIL of general Thomas Farrell, who demanded to hold the core of the first nuclear bomb in his hands before it was assembled. He later signed the Nagasaki bomb: "To Hirohito, with love and kisses, T. F. Farrell." This is the only love note written on a nuclear bomb used in war.

rv40 TIL NY’s Statue of Liberty is legally married (under Nevada’s laws) to Christopher Columbus monument in Barcelona, Spain.