Post * BreXk — Curious Curator

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TIL Flo Rida, the rapper, is from Florida, the state. That's why he calls himself Flo Rida. But he hates being called Florida (like the state).

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wo8l8 TIL The energy in nuclear waste could power the U.S. for 100 years, but the technology was never commercialized

p8By8 TIL in 1955, Jack Graham placed a bomb in his mother's suitcase in order to collect on insurance he purchased moment before her flight. The blast killed her and 43 other people on the plane

Lkylp TIL that Plutonium is so toxic that if 500g of plutonium dust released into the air, it would be sufficient to kill nearly 2 million people. It is just due to heavy metal poison effects, not radioactivity. This makes the toxicity of plutonium roughly equivalent to that of nerve gas.

yeKw TIL In the 2001 Disney movie Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Disney hired Marc Okrand to create an almost entirely new language for the the Atlantean race

Pwdn TIL that fascist dictator Francisco Franco brought back the Spanish Monarchy, but the King of Spain instituted a democracy instead as soon as he came into power.