Post * GYLe1 — Curious Curator

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TIL scientists created a sound so loud that it can instantly boil water

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jYJa TIL that Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits wrote the song “Money for Nothing” while shopping in an appliance store and overhearing an employee bitch about MTV

v1L7L TIL If you spell Bananas without the B it's the scientific name for pineapples

0wmDy TIL That the original iPhone’s screen was supposed to be plastic. But Steve Jobs complained that he was getting scratches on his screen. So Corning glass made the screen glass.

N7NGQ TIL: Of the Four colour theorem. You only need 4 colours to colour any 2D map so that no two adjacent regions have the same colour.

kOn75 TIL South African novelist Bessie Head was born of an illegal union between her white mother (who was placed in a mental asylum during her pregnancy) and black father (who then mysteriously disappeared). Her works reveal empathy with children and women treated as “dead things”