Post * 1aYE4 — Curious Curator

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TIL that Ryanair once considered charging passengers for using the bathroom on the plane

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OovJ7 TIL that in 1758, Carl Linnaeus, in his book Systema Naturæ, divided humans into five "subspecies:" the white, sanguine, and powerful Europeans; the yellow, melancholy, and severe Asians; the red, choleric, and stubborn Americans; the black, stony, and lax Africans; and the "wild, monstrous" others.

9a1B TIL CNN once had two reporters talk to each other via satellite while they were standing in the same parking lot

0d68j TIL we’ve been trying to build the hyperloop since 1799

PX0E TIL That ‘District 9’ is the outcome of the failed 'Halo’ movie

MeQAW TIL “King” in a snake’s name signifies that it preys on other snakes and that the king cobra is so named not because it is a cobra but because it typically hunts cobras