Post * D17np — Curious Curator

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TIL: The PH scale was invented in Carlberg's laboratory to improve the brewing process of beer.

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XExe8 TIL McDonald's had a policy against hiring women until later in the 1960's when franchisees objected. Ray Kroc still insisted that any women hired be "flat-chested" and not work the grill because it was considered to be too strenuous.

5YWK9 TIL about the Simpson Wave, a sub-genre of hiphop that combines vaporwave and heavily distorted moments from "The Simpsons", to give it a 90's nostalgic feel.

xn4w TIL that one of the least-remembered US Presidents, Millard Fillmore, was effectively sold as a child by his destitute father into a kind of indentured servitude (bordering on child slavery). He eventually bought himself from his master for $30 and walked 100 miles to his home at age 14

GA5K5 TIL that after the US hydrogen bomb test in 1954 exposed a Japanese fishing vessel to radiation, over one-third of Japan's population signed a petition to ban nuclear tests. This public outcry influenced Japan to establish its Atomic Energy Basic Law in 1955, forbidding military use of nuclear energ

VkLm TIL A former math professor with a PhD from Stanford University specializing in statistics has won the lottery FOUR times