Post * wK91 — Curious Curator

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TIL Sean Connery turned down role of Gandalf and 15% of LOTR box office

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xVkZg TIL that the classification of “First World” initially had nothing to do with standard of living or GDP. The terms 1st, 2nd, and 3rd world were devised at the onset of the Cold War to describe nations that were either aligned to NATO (1st), aligned to the USSR (2nd), or non-aligned to either (3rd).

LJ4Q TIL that a white American became a Japanese citizen, and successfully sued a business that refused entry to non-Japanese for racial discrimination, winning $25,000 in damages

16r8W TIL the only resident ambassador in Liechtenstein is a knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

lo5Qa TIL Bayard Rustin was told to move to the back of a bus, but stopped when a white child reached out to grab his tie, before being scolded by its mom. He thought, “I owe it to that child, that it should be educated to know that blacks do not want to sit in the back”. He was then arrested and beaten.

0dW61 TIL the Confederacy attacked Vermont