Post * 7m1p — Curious Curator

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TIL epidemiologists studied World of Warcraft’s unintentional “Corrupted Blood” plague as a virtual model of disease spread and populace reaction to deadly pandemic.

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9Jm6 TIL that the average height of a human being stayed constant from the stone age all the way until the 1800’s, yet the average human today is four inches taller on average than 150 years ago.

nWX8b TIL In 2010, to prove the Better Business Bureau was a pay-to-play scam, a group of business owners formed a fictional company called "Hamas" (like the militant group in Palestine). Hamas paid the BBB $425 and received a rating of A minus.

R7r71 TIL That Despite it consistently ranking among the lowest in GDP per capita, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has an estimated $24 trillion in untapped minerals, having 70% of the world's coltan, a third of it's cobalt, over 30% of its diamond reserves, and a tenth of its copper.

5v09 TIL that a carrot farmer trying to cut back food waste (over half of carrots produced are too ugly for grocery shelves) carved & created the first batch of ‘baby carrots’ using a green bean cutter. 30 years later, these carrots account for 70 percent of all carrot sales

m0VE TIL Walt Disney & Salvador Dali collaborated on a short film called “Destino” in 1945