Post * EkWw — Curious Curator

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TIL studies show day-to-day happiness increases with income until you hit $75k per year. After that, increased income does nothing to increase happiness.

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DQKpD TIL that the movie character Raymond from the Academy Award winning movie Rain man was based on real life savant, Kim Peek. He could simultaneously read the left side and right side pages of a book at the same time and had complete memory of over 12,000 books.

XbnD TIL that in 1987 a man convinced 2.8 million people to send him a penny each for his college education

N71A8 TIL Burt Reynolds took revenge from National Enquirer who wrote crap about him for years by dumping a helicopter full of horse shit on their Florida HQ

97l7 TIL: In 1550’s France, Catherine de Medici was so disgusted by women with “thick waists”, she enforced a ban on them from her court - this lead to the widespread use of the corset throughout western civilization for the next 350 years.

XEynX TIL Six nylon American flags have been left on the Moon. They were purchased from a government catalogue and not designed to handle the harsh conditions of Space. Some flags are still standing. It is thought that the Apollo 11 flag fell over after they left the moon.