Post * 6W18 — Curious Curator

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TIL That the color of chicken eggs is often times associated with the color of the chickens ear lobes.

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9Y5P7 TIL of the sinking of the PS General Slocum, the second worst disaster in terms of lives lost in NYC, in which many people drowned because the life jackets had been filled with iron in order to meet minimum weight requirements of the time.

grYgL TIL in 2022, a dispute between Pantone and Adobe resulted in the removal of Pantone color coordinates from Photoshop and Adobe's other design software, causing colors in graphic artists' digital documents to be replaced with black unless artists paid Pantone a separate $15 monthly subscription fee.

npWW TIL that in 1997 Morgan Freeman offered to cover the cost of prom for a Mississippi school that held two racially segregated proms every year, provided that the one Freeman would be covering would just be one racially integrated prom. This offer was refused until 2008.

bDLp TIL Johns Hopkins no longer performs sex change operations because they believe the desire to change one’s sex is a mental disorder.

8yL8 TIL that in the early days of the Post Office, people would continue writing text on the same page at 90 degrees to the original text to reduce expensive postage costs.