Post * 69QDw — Curious Curator

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TIL: Some McDonald's Restaurants only have one arch because that was the original design to hold up the signs.

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RD17 TIL: Australia uses giant stop signs projected on sheets of water to prevent tunnel crashes [x-post from r/cars]

dAKQ TIL that during the recording of Iron Maiden’s “Number of the Beast”, unexplained phenomena occurred. This all climaxed when the producer, Martin Birch, was involved in a car accident with a mini-bus transporting a group of nuns, after which he was presented with a repair bill for £666.

W7RrB TIL that adding a new road to a traffic network can sometimes make everyone’s commute longer, due to Braess' Paradox.

VMVdB TIL that the term, Luck of the Irish, was originally an insult. It was said sarcastically as the Irish have historically had bad luck, such as the potato famine.

p8By8 TIL in 1955, Jack Graham placed a bomb in his mother's suitcase in order to collect on insurance he purchased moment before her flight. The blast killed her and 43 other people on the plane