Post * GAOj — Curious Curator

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TIL Napoleon requested a communication method that woud not require light or sound. The result was Night Writing, a tactile military code that was rejected as too difficult for Napoleon’s troops, but which became the basis for Braille.

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4gB5 TIL In Tajikistan, 45% of the country’s entire GDP is remittance (money sent home from relatives abroad).

EgE0x TIL about Reza Baluchi, a Florida man who attempted to walk across the water from his home state to New York in a homemade ‘bubble device’ - he washed ashore, in Florida, after one day

9wYeM TIL that, based on cladistic analysis of mtDNA cytochrome b and 12S rRNA sequences, the Nicobar pigeon is sometimes called the closest living relative of the extinct didines (Raphinae), which include the famous dodo (Raphus cucullatus).

wLGnP TIL that a man, Joaquin Garcia, skipped work for six years and nobody noticed until he won an award for twenty years of loyal service. During the six years he quietly collected a $41,500 annual salary from his local government without showing up for work.

ALYg TIL the intro to Van Halen’s “Runnin’ With the Devil” is actually car horns. They were taken out of the band’s cars, mounted in a box powered by two car batteries, then slowed down during recording.