Post * 8NRZ — Curious Curator

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TIL that the Mars candy company firmly refuses to market to children under 12. Here is their “marketing code.”

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D19YD TIL in 2016 An Artificial Intelligence program called AlphaGo successfully beat the worlds best ranked players in the ancient game of Go. A feat previously thought impossible due to the element of human intuition required.

R5pb7 TIL that some orb weaver spiders stitch a zipper pattern in their webs so birds and larger creatures don’t pass through and wreck them.

dB4K TIL that all tweets you will ever send are archived to the library of congress.

BMAL TIL A man named Will Purvis survived a hanging because the noose became untied. He had previously told all 12 jurors that he would “Live longer than the lot of them”. He died 3 days after the last juror had died.

WkQrL TIL in apartheid South Africa a "Pencil Test" determined if an ambiguous looking person was white, black or coloured. If the pencil passed through their hair with ease, they "passed", but if it didn't, it suggested Afro-textured hair and they'd be forced to live apart from the white community.