Post * 0Y4A — Curious Curator

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TIL Pluto is still a planet according to New Mexico state law.

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MeY4V TIL Due to the emergency return of Apollo 13 the lunar module's plutonium reactor currently sits intact on the Pacific Ocean floor with a functional lifespan of 870 years.

oRkDr TIL the last line of Franz Kafka's "The Judgement" has a sexual double meaning in its original German. Kafka later confessed that when he wrote that final line he was thinking of "a violent ejaculation" instead of "an unending stream of traffic", a play on the German word "Verkehr".

W76J8 TIL that human's brains are inherently wired to put more focus on the negative than the positive in what Psychologists refer to as "negativity bias."

4XZvJ TIL that color photography has existed since 1907. The "autochrome" process used millions of microscopic red, green and blue colored potato starch grains that filtered light before it reached the emulsion on a glass plate.

ZJ94 TIL that a woman tried to sue Cap'n Crunch when she learned that Crunchberries were not real fruit.