Post * 8pEL — Curious Curator

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TIL that from 9PM to 12AM, Netflix accounts for 33% of all bandwidth in North America.

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dDKGj TIL France outlawed discardable dishware in fast food restaurants.

LWWQ TIL that when Koko, the gorilla famous for knowing sign language, was asked where gorillas go after death, she responded by signing “Comfortable hole, bye.”

ADvDd TIL 50 years ago, Ham the chimp was launched into space, where he experienced up to 14.7g during a six-minute freefall. He survived his ocean splashdown (although he nearly drown before rescue crews arrived) and lived 20 more years at a zoo in Washington D.C.

J1PNl TIL Albert Einstein credited the writing of 18th century philosopher David Hume --who argued that universal time independent of an observer’s viewpoint doesn’t exist -- as key to helping him formulate his theory of special relativity.

PykG TIL that during the 2003 Station Nightclub fire, a reporter filmed the entire fire from the moment before the pyrotechnics went off on the main stage. He was at the club doing a piece on nightclub safety.