Post * 78VRL — Curious Curator

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TIL about project Cybersyn, an attempt to implement a socialist economy aided by real-time computer processing and pre-internet telecommunication-based coordination in 1970s Chile

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awBJ9 TIL that standard calorie counts for foods ignore the effect of cooking, and cooked food has significantly more effective calories because it's more easily digested.

pYxpb TIL that in the United States, there are at least 17 counties, 70 towns and cities, 10 squares, 33 streets, 14 schools, a hill, a park, a river, four hotels, a mountain, and two theaters named after the Marquis de Lafayette, a French General in the American Revolutionary War.

l7WLK TIL of the Greek poet Aeschylus, who died after an eagle dropped a tortoise on him, mistaking his bald head for a rock on which to break the tortoise's shell.

7BEr TIL: That American toilets clog so much because they have a trapway half the size of the trapway in an Australian or NZ Toilet

NbGE TIL that for every $1 invested in the Human Genome Project, $141 were generated for the economy