Post * 5VeA8 — Curious Curator

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TIL, at tax originally levied in 1898 during the Spanish-American War was in effect until 2006.

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gkYD TIL That Patrick Stewart expected Star Trek: TNG to fail and would not have joined if he’d known it would air for seven seasons.

mx9Do TIL that the US stores apples in a process called Controlled Atmosphere. These are storage rooms that control the temperature, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and humidity levels to put apples in hibernation which “puts them in suspended animation”. This is why we can have apples that taste good year round.

LQXed TIL that the inventor of chiropractic said the idea came to him during a seance, from the ghost of a doctor who had died 50 years earlier.

xVxQ7 TIL according to Paul McCartney there is no mystery to who broke up the Beatles. John Lennon did. He called a meeting and said he was leaving the band.

ADpM7 TIL that János Bolyai, one of the discoverers of non-Euclidean geometry, won thirteen pistol duels in a single afternoon, playing his violin between each of them.