Post * 0w5RN — Curious Curator

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TIL that Saudi Arabia is the first ever country to grant a citizenship to a robot.

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5V6rD TIL Friday the 13th (1980) was panned by critics upon release. Gene Siskel was a vocal critic of the film, going so far as to publicly spoil the ending in an attempt to convince audiences not to see it and encourage detractors to write to actress Betsy Palmer and express their contempt for the film.

EgmgW TIL that outside the US and Canada, Duracell uses a pink bunny as a mascot. The Energizer Bunny was created in 1988 to mock Duracell, after Duracell’s pink bunny trademark in the US had expired. The two companies later agreed that Duracell would keep using a bunny mascot in other regions.

Z8PYp TIL Men commit suicides 3.8x more than women in the west, and 1.8x more globally.

ADOp4 TIL that the night before the Miracle on Ice, American goalie Jim Craig and Soviet star forward Sergei Markov played the arcade game "Centipede" at the Olympic Village. The two could barely speak in each other's language, so they communicated with nods and laughs.

ZpbKp TIL that a man who survived an avalanche later found that Sudoku was the only thing that would trigger his epileptic seizures, because oxygen loss had damaged the part of his brain used for visual-spatial thinking.