Post * 16O18 — Curious Curator

› added 1 year ago

327

TIL the .ai domain for artificial intelligence actually stands for Anguilla, a Caribbean island

Read more

Jmy1 TIL that saturns rings are only ~33 feet thick

woXBJ TIL dandelions were called pissabeds due to their diuretic content.

7Bep TIL Crayola has crayons named Shocking Pink, Pink Flamingo, Carnation Pink, Tickle Me Pink, Pink Sherbet, and Piggy Pink, but no crayon just named ‘Pink’.

xPo TIL that Bangladesh, roughly the size of Iowa, has a larger population than Russia.

7r7GM TIL about Janet Parker, the last person on record to die of smallpox. In 1978, Parker worked above a U.K. research laboratory conducting experiments with the pathogen. Today smallpox is officially held at only two places in the world, the CDC in the U.S. and the Vector Institute in Russia.