Post * rRR54 — Curious Curator

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TIL - The original cop from the Village People, who quit in 1979, makes about $1 million a year in royalties for "Y.M.C.A.", is heterosexual and was once married to actress Phylicia Rashad.

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E1jwV TIL that millisecond pulsars are stars that complete at least one full rotation in less than 10 milliseconds. The fastest spinning pulsar rotates 716 times per second, and is as consistent in its rotation as an atomic clock when measured across decades

v18Kj TIL that sand tiger embryos will consume their siblings before being born.

PYYeO TIL Icelandic people actively work to eliminate English "loanwords" in their language by inventing and substituting new words from Old Icelandic and Norse roots

Vr5G TIL Goldman Sachs did a study in 2009 that estimated a unified Korea could boast an economy larger than France, Germany, and even Japan by 2050 with a GDP of $6 trillion.

xVaV7 TIL the Bohemian Rhapsody video took only four hours to film. The band arrived to the studio at 7.30 in the morning and by 11.30 they were finished and were relaxing in a local pub. The entire thing cost $2025.