Post * y6oe — Curious Curator

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TIL a Manhattan driver recently set a record by hitting 240 consecutive green lights.

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9J4X TIL New York launched an “America Works” style workfare program in 1995 known as the Work Experience Program (WEP). The result was that thousands of students were forced out of school, and thousands of union workers were replaced by WEP workers doing the same jobs for a fraction of the pay.

l7gJ1 TIL over 99% of Warren Buffett’s net worth was accumulated after he was 65 years old

5VmoP TIL of Richard Francis Burton, an 19th century British explorer and writer, who disguised himself as Muslim in order to get into both Mecca and Medina. While he was not the first European to go to either one of those cities, his pilgrimage is the most famous and best documented of the time.

mx1LM TIL that military service dogs in the US have higher ranks than their handlers.

mxyyO TIL that roads are built to accommodate whatever uses them and back in Ancient Rome this was a chariot or two horses asses, which was than used to gauge railway, which was than used to gauge the solid rocket boosters on the space shuttle.