Post * vPJ4 — Curious Curator

› added 12 years ago

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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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E1mn7 TIL Dave Chappelle agreed to be in 'A Star is Born' after Bradley Cooper flew to a party hosted by Chappelle in Ohio to ask him to join the cast. Cooper had to persistently bother Chappelle before he agreed to be in the film.

oO98 TIL since the 1990s, Carmel, Indiana has been replacing all signaled intersections with roundabouts. Benefits include gas savings of 24k gallons/year per roundabout; construction costs $125,000 less per intersection; injury accidents dropped by 80 percent and total accidents dropped by 40 percent.

v1ypR TIL about the IKEA effect which is a cognitive bias in which consumers place a disproportionately high value on products they partially created.

erPL TIL A seven-year-old Russian boy gave up his life saving his sister from her rapist.

wLPZE TIL if you find an uninhabited island covered in guano you are allowed to take it for yourself in the name of the USA