Post * 9pgr — Curious Curator

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TIL: More Americans killed by falling T.V’s than by terrorist attacks

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QJo8L TIL That people made pixels look less pixely by doing Anti-aliasing which is to put more and more transparent color to one and another.

Yp7jW TIL serial killer Ed Kemper requested "death by torture" as punishment for his crimes at his trial.

KxJa TIL Companies such as General Motors (fronting as National City Lines) bought out companies that operated electric streetcars across the USA and fully replaced them with buses, which were reliant on foreign oil.

m7JP TIL on the set of the ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’ TV show, while the crew was moving a neon-orange mannequin prop, one of the mannequin’s arms broke off revealing it was a human body. The body was identified as Elmer McCurdy, a criminal who had robbed a train and died in a shoot-out with police.

8aGxa TIL that Steve Jobs lied to Steve Wozniak. When they made Breakout for Atari, Wozniak and Jobs were going to split the pay 50-50. Atari gave Jobs $5000 to do the job. He told Wozniak he got $700 so Wozniak took home $350.