Post * 015A — Curious Curator

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Til the first item sold on Ebay was a broken laser pointer for 14.83, to someone who kept a broken laser pointer collection

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PYjeL TIL that back in 2010, a man named Jon McLoone ran 15 million computer simulation of the game Hangman and found out that the most difficult word for that program to guess is "Jazz".

j6jBN TIL that All of Earth's water—including oceans, icecaps and glaciers, lakes, rivers, groundwater, and water in the atmosphere—equals ~326 quintillion gallons (326,000,000,000,000,000,000). Of that, a tiny fraction, 37.5 quadrillion gallons, is in the atmosphere above us as water vapor.

d8xrj TIL McDonald's in Sedona, Arizona is the only McDonald's with turquoise instead of golden arches, because the government deemed the yellow ones to be contrasting too much with the surrounding area's scenic rock and opted for bluish-green arches instead.

WEaA TIL 30 million people witnessed the opening of an Al Capone safe only to find dirt and empty moonshine bottles

kOr15 TIL that the moon is egg shaped. It appears to be a perfect circle because the gravitational force of the earth almost permanently has the tip of the moon pointed at it.