Post * wLKGW — Curious Curator

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TIL Graveyard is a burial ground that adjoins a church’s and a cemetery is a burial ground that does not. People are buried in graveyards but in cemeteries it can be both people and ashes.

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Y60d TIL that by will, J.R.R. Tolkien expressively prohibited any use of the “Lord of the Rings” novels by disney (german source)

GYnVG TIL that 5000 janitors in America have PHDs.

ojQ8 TIL of the Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure, the government’s official collection of hilarious and unethical abuses of resources by employees (direct link in comments)

4XpKg TIL that Pinball was removed from Windows because it had a rounding error in the 64 bit version of XP. The code was written by an outside company and it had no comments whatsoever, so they decided to scrap it instead of spending time trying to figure out how the code worked.

epob TIL that there are some freaky currents going on at the Victoria Falls which make it possible to sit/swim right at the edge. It’s called the Devil’s Pool.