Post * 9Y8l6 — Curious Curator

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TIL in 1974, a then largely unknown Queen were booed and heckled at a music festival in Australia. Freddie Mercury told the audience, "When we come back to Australia, we will be the biggest band in the world!" Queen would return after debuting their smash hit Bohemian Rhapsody just two years later.

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j00N TIL Pluto’s largest moon Charon was named after James W. Christy’s wife, Charlene. It was later discovered that Charon was an existing figure in Greek mythology (the ferryman of Hades, later known as Pluto), and thus the name was kept.

v1o1x TIL that there's an "Anti-Powerpoint Party" in Switzerland which seeks a referendum for prohibition of Powerpoint as well as of other presentation software because it "causes national economic damage" and "lowers the quality of presentation in 95% cases."

VVNZ TIL the Aboriginal Mbabaram word for dog is “dog”. This type of coincidence is called a “false cognate” and there are many occurrences throughout the world.

4XAMb TIL of the Rosenhan Experiment, in which a psychologist David Rosenhan and seven other pseudo-patients faked their mental illnesses and gained admission into various psychiatric hospitals, as a criticism of the methods of psychiatric diagnosis.

ZpDeQ TIL that Venus flytraps are native to North Carolina