Post * 8a6rX — Curious Curator

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TIL about the Wilhem Scream - a stock sound effect that's been used in 100's of films. Originally from a 1950's B movie its been re-used in Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Toy Story amongst others

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LkNev TIL that there are flying squids. They can travel a distance of 100 feet through the air by launching themselves above the surface with a jet of water and then spreading their fins and tentacles to glide.

4X9lR TIL in 1994 Jim Carrey starred in Dumb and Dumber, The Mask, and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.

0d1gL TIL unlike other ex-British parliaments, the ruling party of Newfoundland's MPs sit to the left of the Speaker rather than the right - a tradition dating to the 1850s when the heaters were located on that side

4X9BJ TIL that CRT screens were used as a form of random access memory in early computers. A grid of dots was used to represent the RAM on the screen and the static created by the dot was read by a thin sheet of metal set in front of the screen.

nWyJr TIL a woman lost her mother at 50 to fatal familial insomnia, a rare brain disease with no cure that removes the ability to sleep. After discovering she carried the gene, she and her husband quit their jobs to pursue research at Harvard to find a cure before the disease activates when she becomes 50