Post * ANP7 — Curious Curator

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TIL that refrigerating eggs is not necessary, and that in many countries outside the US, eggs are kept at room temperature

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9Ybl7 TIL that negative probability exist and were discovered in 1942. Although highly criticized at first, they are now the bases of quantum mechanics and risk neutral probabilities in finance.

X0Z6Q TIL that in Chile there is a real town named "Peor es Nada" which translates to “Better than nothing” because the owner saw the place as a "dump" and exclaimed that it's better than nothing.

Z8Zb4 TIL There is a Ball Pit Club in London that has over 1,000,000 balls in it

JY6Wk TIL that it was Hasbro, an American multinational toy company that coined the term “Action Figure”, to market their G.I. Joe toys to boys who would not play with “dolls”

QJDad TIL when Weird Al Yankovic asked Kurt Cobain to parody 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' that Kurt asked him if it would be about food, and Al said it would be about how no one could understand his lyrics. Kurt found that extremely funny, and said absolutely.