Post * 0dAXR — Curious Curator

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TIL: There is a Japanese legend about pirates rescuing a woman, who then slept with them then cut off their testicles. They threw her back into the ocean, where she turned into a Sazae-oni (demon) and traded their balls for their gold. This led to the term kin-tama or golden balls in Japanese.

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JbvQ TIL Companies invested 185 million dollars in the CueCat scanner, one of the biggest tech bombs of all time.

Y7keG TIL Paul McCartney agreed to join the board of organizers of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival on the condition that the Jimi Hendrix Experience be invited to perform. They were invited and Jimi ended his performance by lighting his guitar on fire, immediately making him a rock legend.

GjEg TIL The Koosh Ball, the non-bouncing rubber ball once described as a “cross between a porcupine and a bowl of Jell-O”, was invented because some kids were not good at playing catch. Its invention is chronicled in the book, The Secret History of Balls.

kyD4 TIL It would take a person 59 days straight to count to one million. A man named Jeremy Harper counted to up to it for charity in 2007. He counted for 16 hours a day and raised $10,000 (one penny per number).

O9bX TIL that in 1962 the US military suggested committing acts of terrorism on US soil to create popular support for a war against Cuba. A horrified President Kennedy personally fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff over the incident.