Post * 5VL89 — Curious Curator

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TIL Flamin Hot Cheetos was invented by hotshot snack food professionals to compete with spicy snacks sold in the Midwest

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W7vw8 TIL that compasses point north because the North Pole's polarity is actually 'south'

1bBV TIL that before 1600, a game of chess could be won by capturing all of the opponent’s pieces, leaving a bare king; a style of play known as “annihilation”. In Medieval times, players considered it nobler to win by checkmate, so annihilation became a half win for a while, until it was abandoned.

JYJ4V TIL John Romero and John Carmack once build a demo of Commander Keen to position themselves as capable of building a PC version for Super Mario Bros. However, although Nin was impressed with the efforts. The company wanted Mario series to remain exclusive on their consoles

1AB8 TIL female farts smell worse than male farts because they contain more sulphur

neV7o TIL that the blue macaw parrot that inspired "Rio" is now officially extinct in the wild