Post * wL8oP — Curious Curator

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TIL Kid Rock isn’t from a trailer park. His birth name is Robert James Ritchie and he’s the son of an affluent car dealership owner and grew up on a six-acre ranch tending to horses 40 miles outside Detroit

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9YvBm TIL Greenland sharks have an estimated lifespan of up to six hundred years.

kJYxW TIL the tree topper used on the Rockefeller Christmas tree since 2018 has 3 million Swarovski crystals and weighs 900 pounds (408.23 kg)

yQAAv TIL that cement is to concrete as flour is to cake. Cement is a component of concrete.

mxAo TIL There is a verifiable population of kangaroos living in the wild in the township of Émancé, about an hour outside of Paris.[2] The kangaroos are descended from a breeding population which escaped during a botched burglary attempt at an animal park in the 1970s.

0dwM TIL that Lyndon B. Johnson enjoyed showing his penis, which he nicknamed “Jumbo,” to his colleagues at the US Capitol. On the floors of the house and senate, he was known to “extravagantly rummage away at his groin.”