Post * DX4V — Curious Curator

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TIL Nissan.com is not owned by the car company, but by a single guy named Uzi Nissan. He has been fighting the car company in court since 1999

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KOrkw In 1965, a Japanese company called Yamasa Clock created a personal-fitness pedometer called the Manpo-kei, which means “10,000 steps meter.” The Japanese character for 10,000 looks almost like a person walking or running, which is likely how the gadget-maker landed on the name—and the number. It’s also an easy goal to remember, especially when accompanied by a sketch of a person who’s literally walking. But that benchmark wasn’t based on any scientific evidence. There's no magic number of steps that can ensure your heart health.

nvY7 TIL that Scrubs episode where Dr. Cox lost all his transplant patients to rabies was based on a real event. [pdf]

D6av TIL that we get the word “orange” from the fruit, not vice versa, and that the colour was called “yellow-red” before we discovered the fruit

x6LRo TIL that a Formula 1 car can brake from 100 mph to 0 faster than it can accelerate from 0 to 100 mph.

9YPPQ TIL of Major Digby Tatham-Warter, a British major who brought an umbrella into battle, using it to stop an armoured vehicle by poking the driver's eye and saving a chaplain. When a fellow soldier complained about it, he answered "oh my goodness, but what if it rains?"