Post * 11yW — Curious Curator

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TIL Astronauts often lose their fingernails after conducting spacewalks

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ONOa TIL The average child in the US watches over 40,000 TV commercials a year

x6OYB TIL The Red Hot Chilli Peppers were initially known as Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem.

R5Wg4 TIL that the ancient Olmecs believed in werejaguars, similar to the werewolf in European cultures.

nQ7b TIL The British army had less than 48,000 troops at the onset of the American Revolutionary War, in less than four decades the army grew to more than 250,000 over the course of the Napoleonic Wars.

N7jVE TIL that David Bowie predicted the uprise of the Internet in an interview in 1999, underlining the importance of the “demystification process between the artist and the audience”.