Post * rRbx — Curious Curator

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TIL that of the women nominated for Best Comedy Actress, three of them have played Liz Lemon (Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus)

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yQrde TIL That mail was delivered 7 days a week, despite arguments from Churches and Organized Labor, up until 1912

gr5WA TIL that Imperata cylindrica - also known as kunai grass - is listed as an invasive weed in some areas of the world, but it is also a common medical spice that has been used in traditional Chinese medicine.

rRV1w TIL South Africa is the only country in the world that has developed nuclear weapons and then later gave them up

WkMMd TIL that there are over 89,000 children on the Sex Offender Registry (some as young as 7 years old!)

1aDLX TIL when skyscrapers were still in its infancy, a stunt performance called "the Human Fly" became extremely popular across North America, which was when someone (usually with a blindfold) would scale/climb the building without a net, becoming the influence for "wall-crawler" Spider-Man decades later