Post * vdYx — Curious Curator

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TIL that Bea Arthur (Golden Girls Dorothy) was a truck driving Marine.

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vPwK4 TIL that during a single Senate term from 1949 to 1955, Nebraska's Class 2 seat was occupied by six different senators due to two deaths, three appointments, two special elections, and one resignation.

4kMl6 TIL Taylor Swift grew up on a Christmas tree farm as her dad farmed in his spare time. Taylor’s first job was to pick out the praying-mantis pods so they wouldn’t hatch inside people’s homes

9wJAB TIL that just thinking about a location activates mental maps in the brain

JYVZk TIL On the set of “Big Fat Liar,” where John Cho played Hong Kong director Dusty Wang, he refused to do an accent because he did not want to do an accent in a children’s comedy where young people would be laughing inadvertently at an Asian stereotype

X5wk TIL the 181 year old corpse of philosopher Jeremy Bentham attended a board meeting at the college he founded and was recorded as “present but not voting”