Post * pdDQ — Curious Curator

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TIL there is a flag of a Mongolian province that has a dinosaur (sauropod) on it.

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x6jYk TIL Nolan Bushnell, creator of the Atari, was also responsible for creating Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza.

d8yp8 TIL that the song used as a chant after goals in the NHL is called Kernkraft 400, by Zombie Nation.

nWGeb TIL of Mariya Oktyabrskaya. When her soldier husband was killed in 1941, she sold her possessions, bought a T34 tank nicknamed The Fighting Girlfriend and relentlessly fought Nazis. When the vehicle took a hit, and despite orders, Maria jumped out of the tank to fix it under enemy fire.

16lYW TIL Viggo Mortensen and Buckethead made four albums together.

ReW8 TIL Subotai was the primary General of Genghis Khan during the Mongolian conquest of Asia. He directed more than twenty campaigns in which he conquered thirty-two nations and won sixty-five pitched battles, during which he conquered or overran more territory than any other commander in history.