Post * 4ge5 — Curious Curator

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TIL there is a “zip bomb” that is only 42 kilobytes when zipped, but is 4.5 Petabytes uncompressed.

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9wgNG TIL in 1992, the Grateful Dead helped sponsor Lithuania’s national basketball team. The band also had their designer send a box of tie-dyed T-shirts in red, yellow and green- Lithuania’s national colors. On the shirts was an image of a skeleton dunking a basketball.

1aaN7 TIL that the earliest recorded club playing football of any kind was simply called Foot-Ball Club (founded in Edinburgh in 1824)

LQ7Md TIL of Sada Abe (1905–after 1971), a geisha and prostitute who, in 1936, strangled her lover and cut off his genitals, which she carried in her kimono. The case became a national obsession in Japan and inspired many works of art. She served 5 years and later wrote an autobiography.

B9Nk TIL Tsundoku is Japanese for buying books, but letting them pile up in one’s home without reading them.

GD8j TIL in an online video skeptic James Randi overdosed on homeopathic drugs to test if the drugs were real. He suffered no side effects.