Post * 46Do — Curious Curator

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TIL the walking-into-the-room-and-forgetting-why-you’re-there feeling is due to your brains way of categorizing memories.

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kV0d TIL LED brake lights can turn on up to 0.5 seconds faster than incandescent ones. This can increase reaction times by up to one car length at highway speeds.

R7DOw TIL Moscow mules were created by a guy that couldn’t sell his vodka, another that couldn’t sell his ginger beer and a lady that had too many copper mugs

ZDAv TIL that when Louis Rèard introduced the bikini in France in 1946, no models were willing to wear such revealing swimwear, so Rèard had to hire a stripper to model it.

5VaQk TIL that in India, 114 schools are run under the Ministry of Railways, originally established by the British to cater to the educational needs of the children of railway staff.

jN9Ov TIL "This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts, and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours" - Is the message NASA launched as a record into space in 1977 attached to Voyager 1.