Post * 0dAJA — Curious Curator

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TIL Double slit experiment works not only with photons and electrons but also with molecules of up to 2000 atoms.

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ZpYj4 TIL orcas are a part of the dolphin family

P1xae TIL that at the time of The Titanic’s sinking, a magazine story about a ship sinking from an iceberg collision in the Atlantic was out in circulation. The author of this story Thornton Jenkins Hains, was writing under a pseudonym after having been disgraced in society for involvement in a murder.

oR9YR TIL that the phrase "Novus ordo seclorum" (New Order of the Ages) on the Great Seal of the United States originates from a work by the Roman poet Virgil

yvgJ TIL Speedy Gonzales was banned by Cartoon Network for being an offensive stereotype, only to be returned after mass protest by the hispanic-american community.

A4R4 TIL that of the of the 139 members elected to the 1934 USSR Central Committee of the Communist Party at the 17th Congress, Stalin had 98 executed. Of 1,996 party members present, 1,108 were arrested, and about two thirds of those executed. Thus it was given the name “The Congress of the Condemned”.