Post * 9YyWQ — Curious Curator

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TIL that a wallpaper that has an overall RGB/pixel luminance value greater than 255 can cause Android phones to crash on startup and to need to be factory reset as a result (skip to 7:15 if you don't want full explanation)

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p8GyO TIL David Letterman was Blackmailed for $2 Million and Worked with Authorities to Catch the Perpetrator.

ELAx TIL Vatican City is the only nation in the world that can lock its own gates at night. It has its own phone company, radio, T.V. stations, money, and stamps. It even has its own army, the historic Swiss Guard.

BDZr TIL Ulysses S. Grant was also planned to be assassinated along with Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth, but did not attend the play at Ford Theater because their wives were not on good terms.

5d1p TIL Tropicana OJ is owned by Pepsico and Simply Orange by Coca Cola. They strip the juice of oxygen for better storage, which strips the flavor. They then hire flavor and fragrance companies, who also formulate perfumes for Dior, to engineer flavor packs to add to the juice to make it “fresh.”

R7ABj TIL Alexander Hamilton, a Scottish politician, had such a strong interest in Ancient Egyptian mummies that he arranged for his own body to be mummified and placed in a sarcophagus after his death.