Post * DQXMe — Curious Curator

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TIL: "The Flintstones" were originally "The Flagstones" in their 1960 pilot film. The name was changed because the family in the "Hi & Lois" comic strip was also named Flagstone.

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pYrX4 TIL: A tesseract can unfold to a perfectly uniform cross, or fold into a five-dimensional configuration.

awXKy TIL that people who drive the Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles are called Hotdoggers and only college seniors who are about to graduate are eligible to be Hotdoggers.

D1Laj TIL: Mt. Olive pickle company is based in a town called Mt. Olive and the street is One Cucumber Blvd, at the intersection of Cucumber and Vine.

e0MXk TIL that in 1991 a cosmonaut was stuck in orbit on the MIR Space Station while the USSR collapsed below on earth

VMZXp TIL nine years ago we had the technology to display on a screen what people see in their minds. (How has this technology progressed since then, one wonders?)