Post * 9kvM — Curious Curator

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TIL that a man has replicated what the Rebel Yell in the American Civil War sounded like

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xVrBo TIL When you bail someone out of jail you get the money back if they attend their court dates

7KlX TIL all things observable–the stars, planets and galaxies that can be seen today–make up just 4% of the universe. The other 96% is made of stuff astronomers can’t see, detect or even comprehend.

pYxJQ TIL Tame Impala’s album cover ‘The Slow Rush’ is a photo taken from an abandoned mining town called Kolmanskop

6EkN7 TIL: In March, a Tokyo Man rappelled down the side of a building using a rope to break into a trading card store on the 6th floor to steal 80 Pokémon and Yu Gi Oh cards worth a million yen. He claimed it was to pay off a debt. He was foiled by security cameras.

xVdko TIL researchers have found that the brain’s frontal cortex not only controls vision; it leaves out things in plain sight. Although the eye's vision appear like a camera, in actuality, it is actively constructing a visual scene and making decisions about it.