Post * 0dQP5 — Curious Curator

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TIL about Biofouling, the accumulation of organisms (such as barnacles) where they are not wanted (such as on ship hulls) that causes degradation to the primary purpose of the item. Biofouling can require up to 40% more fuel to compensate for increased drag and reduced speeds.

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4km5N TIL Anna Jarvis started a petition to abolish Mother's Day in 1943. However, these efforts were halted when she was placed in the Marshall Square Sanitarium in West Chester, Pennsylvania. People connected with the floral and greeting card industries paid the bills to keep her in the sanitarium.

ANRPn TIL about Belphegor's prime, 1000000000000066600000000000001, a palindromic prime number with 666 at its heart and 13 zeros on either side. It was named after one of the Princes of Hell, who was charged with helping people make ingenious inventions and discoveries.

v17Lj TIL about the feud between Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra over the affections of Ava Gardner, culminating in Sinatra driving a golf cart through a café window, a resulting fist-fight in which Sinatra lost two teeth, and ultimately led to the Mob's withdrawal from Vegas.

xVnO1 TIL Queens Of The Stone Age were forcibly thrown out of rehab. They were hired to do a "light-hearted, intimate performance" but they opened their set with the drugs filled lyrics of their song Feel good hit of the summer: "Nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol c-c-c-c-c-cocaine"

kOoj1 TIL in 1984, a pipe-fitter for a uranium core processing plant in Ohio was discovered in a processing furnace. At the time the plant was discovered dumping a massive amount of radioactive waste into the atmosphere. Co-workers of the deceased worker suspected he was a whistleblower and was murdered.