Post * 8aeMX — Curious Curator

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TIL Pinball was banned beginning in the early 1940s until 1976 in New York City. New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia was responsible for the ban, believing that it robbed school children of their hard earned nickels and dimes.

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X0PyE TIL After Neil Armstrong died, his wife Carol cleaned his closet and found a cloth bag filled with souvenirs he brought back from the moon, including a movie camera from inside the lunar module and waist tether. Congress recently passed a law approving astronauts can take unneeded equipment home

d8DOd TIL male fruit flies drink away pain of rejection. Males who had been rejected and who'd gotten lucky had the option of eating normal food or food spiked with alcohol. While the happy/lucky fruit flies had no preference, the rejected fruit flys were far more likely to eat the alcohol-infused food.

MejEB TIL : There is a method to cut a cake between 3 people where everyone "thinks" they got the best slice. Because of that, this method is called envy free cutting. Same method can be generalized for any number of people, but its gets complicated.

9ynB TIL of Moondog, a blind avant-garde jazz musician who used to wander the streets of New York city donning a cloak and a viking-style hat while performing and selling his music. He would later become known as “The Viking of 6th Avenue” by the people of New York City.

a8DbZ TIL Smokers are 16 more times likely to develop optic neuropathy, a sudden loss of vision, which often leads to permanent blindness.