Post * vPJ4 — Curious Curator

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TIL that upon becoming the first black man to obtain a PhD from Harvard, W.E DuBois said: “The honor, I assure you, was Harvard’s.”

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0wLkj TIL that today's ground level in Edinburgh is multiple stories above of the original medieval city, some of which is still accessible through deep cellars

Qr8L TIL that there is an area in the middle of the Pacific Ocean where no longer needed spacecraft are and have been routinely deposited. It is known as the “Spacecraft cemetery”, and notably it is also the place where the defunct Mir space station rests.

8aPkV TIL Willie Nelson was close friends with Frank Sinatra, and they made a series of PSA's about space travel together in the 70s.

4XYBo TIL Jewish Americans have made a tradition of eating Chinese food during the holiday season since the early 1900s

MeBWK TIL former US president Gerald Ford, his wife Betty Ford, and politician Henry Kissinger all made guest appearances as themselves in a 1983 episode of night-time soap Dynasty