Post * wlx7 — Curious Curator

› added 9 years ago

221

TIL that Betty White holds the world record for the Longest TV Career for a Female Entertainer (75+ years).

Read more

e08VE TIL That following the reporting of the sun newspaper on the Hillsborough disaster, almost every reader in Liverpool cancelled their subscription and most shops boycotted it, meaning that it's still very difficult to find a copy in the city over 30 years later.

rvy1 TIL: There have been 4x more people who have been to the moon than have been in the bottom of Marianas Trench

GYaej TIL: Queen's university's Medical School banned black medical students in 1918 and did not consider black applicants until 1965. The ban, however, was not officially removed until 2018.

kJkPE TIL Cornelius Vanderbilt had an estimated worth of $105 million ($2,885,531,250 in 2022 dollars) at the time of his death in 1877

vYOr TIL that surgeons who regularly play video games make 37% fewer errors and perform tasks 27% faster than their peers