Post * 8eyR8 — Curious Curator

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TIL in 2021, Denuvo rendered a number of games unplayable because they forgot to renew their domain name.

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5Y95Q TIL that Pluto was discovered by a 23 year old farmboy with no degree in astronomy who spent a year comparing photographs of the night sky, searching for a "star" that changed positions. He would later earn his Masters degree and teach at New Mexico State

konE TIL that in the 50’s and 60’s the CIA would hire prostitutes to bring back unsuspecting men to safe houses where they would be drugged with large doses of LSD and observed from behind a one-way mirror. It was dubbed Operation Midnight Climax.

0Vl5 TIL- Pawpaw, the largest edible fruit native to North America is pollinated by flies because the flowers smell like rotting meat, the fruit tastes like a banana/mango

KYeJG TIL Emperor Justin of the Eastern Roman Empire was an illiterate peasant before becoming Emperor and his wife Lupicina was a freed slave. His nephew and future emperor Justinian was also a peasant and his wife Theodora was a former child prostitute. Justinian’s reign is considered a golden age.

d8eQd TIL it would take several months to reach the speed of light at a rate of acceleration that the human body can withstand (without inertia manipulation)