Post * 4kdD6 — Curious Curator

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TIL that there are 170 million objects larger than 1mm in space, each capable of destroying a spacecraft's ability to reach a specific altitude upon impact, and with all of them moving at a speed of 10 kilometers per second.

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PYW5e TIL that Australian beer companies changed their bottles to prevent the extinction of a species of beetle

M11V TIL that according to the UN, only 64% (4.5b/7b) of the world’s population has access to a toilet, while 86% (6b/7b) has access to a mobile phone.

W7e08 TIL that the Porygon episode of Pokémon caused hundreds of children to experience epileptic seizures due to rapidly flashing red and blue frames. This incident led to the Pokémon anime being put on hold for four months.

W5vY TIL Alfred Hitchcock created the horror masterpiece, Psycho, with the belief that people would see it as a comedy. “The content was, I felt, rather amusing and it was a big joke,” Hitchcock explained in tapes discovered in the BBC archives in 2014.

7BbX TIL that some older PCs would play Für Elise through their motherboard speakers to indicate hardware failure. Other tunes occasionally heard included “It’s a Small, Small World” and “Eye of the Tiger.”