Post * 9YgOM — Curious Curator

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TIL Before Rick & Morty Justin Roiland was Developing “Dog World”

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awZXA TIL of the extinct sport of Barrel Jumping existed with a record jump of 18 barrels (nearly 30’!)

Y7PQA TIL about Low-background steel, any steel produced prior to the detonation of the first nuclear bombs in the 1940s and 1950s and now typically found in shipwrecks. It is often used for modern particle detectors because more modern steel is contaminated with traces of nuclear fallout.

X04j TIL That if you tape two halves of a ping pong ball to your eyes, and stare at a red light while listening to static, you will have complex and vivid hallucinations.

ep4QL TIL that the oldest description of cancer dates back to 3000 B.C. The Edwin Smith Papyrus described tumors of the breasts that were removed by a tool called the fire drill.

aYZo TIL that a 14 year old boy broke into Queen Victoria’s Buckingham Palace while disguised as a chimney sweep then ran off with her underwear.