Post * 16px7 — Curious Curator

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TIL - in 1958, the US Air Force ran Project A119, to nuke the Moon with an H-Bomb

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0n0p TIL the only thing preventing an American from driving all the way to Argentina is a short strip of Jungle in Panama called the Darien Gap

E1Zn0 TIL 3 Harvard scientists were paid US$50,000 in the 1960s to promote sugar use and paint fat as the bad guy

epAQ5 TIL about Cranberry/Gold Ruby glass, which is made by mixing miscible gold (sometimes tin as well) into molten glass. Furthermore, there's 1976 film "Heart of Glass" about it by Werner Herzog in which he hypnotized actors before most scenes in his endeavor to, quote, speak through them.

neRkP TIL that an acoustic piano has a tension string of almost 20 tons, because it has over 230 strings, and each string is under a tension of almost 90 kg (do the math). Because of this the piano is so heavy: because its iron-cast frame to withstand that tension.

GYQ07 TIL Humans are all born with 2 innate fears, falling and loud sounds.