Post * pe8Z — Curious Curator

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TIL that the day after Spetember 11th, the British Field Band played the American National Anthem out of respect during the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace

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R7QO4 TIL that Jews were fined the equivalent of $7 billion for the events of Kristallnacht, and billed an additional $25M to repair the windows.

N7Ma8 TIL that spiders can fly using Earth's electrical field. Spiders have flown 'two-and-a-half miles up in the air, and 1,000 miles out to sea.'

5pak TIL Spain produces more Virgin olive oil than the rest of the world combined yet most of it is sold as Italian virgin olive oil.

R5L17 TIL that Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are the creators of Breakout, the iconic arcade game from the 70s. They built it as a single player evolution of Pong.

W79NY TIL a dingbat wasn't originally an insult, it was a term used in typesetting for special symbols a printing press could use that weren't letters, numbers, or punctuation. A printing press would have them to draw boxes on printed pages or include symbols in the text.