Post * yVJaJ — Curious Curator

› added 11 months ago

244

TIL Johnny Cash was one of the first Americans to hear about Josef Stalin’s death

Read more

0wPJR TIL that this is what animals that exist today would look like if drawn based on their bones - just like dinosaurs are

N7AYE TIL, Ziprider, the world's longest zipline, located in Copper Canyon Mexico, is ~1.5 miles long and lets you travel at a speed of ~85 miles per hour.

rR9VM TIL Bill Darden (the founder of Red Lobster) opened his first restaurant, a luncheonette called The Green Frog in Wayward, Georgia at 19 in 1938. He refused to segregate customers by race. Segregation was a state law in 30’s Georgia.

WkjZB TIL In the 1700's, Ex-Slave Tom Molineaux Literally Fought his Way to Freedom, Becoming America's First International Boxing Superstar

Ma9A TIL that a radio station in Cincinatti was the first to broadcast at 500-kilowatts - a signal so powerful, some could hear the station from the metal in their mattresses and box springs.