Post * xKr0 — Curious Curator

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TIL that New York city will give homeless people a free one-way ticket to almost anywhere

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p8kJb TIL That George Carlin’s infamous rant on the seven words you can't say on TV was central to the case FCC vs. Pacifica Foundation, in which the Supreme Court determined that Carlin’s language was “indecent but not obscene.”

5omD TIL A man who would later become the president of Mormon church once declared, “We will never get a man into space. […] The moon is a superior planet to the earth and it was never intended that man should go there. You can write it down in your books that this will never happen”… in 1961.

XEvEQ TIL that otters keep their favorite stones under their arms when they're not using them to detach prey from the seabed and break it open. They've been known to form attachments to them and keep them throughout their lives.

5VXQQ TIL about black swan events, major events that were rationalised in hindsight as predictable but were outside of the imaginable for people at the time of their occurrence . Examples for these are the 9/11 attacks, the start of WWI and the dissolution of the USSR.

DbQJ TIL Monopoly was originally a game designed to warn against the power of landlords and how they could make money for essentially doing nothing. It was a warning against unbridled capitalism and the wealth inequality it creates.