Post * GgW7 — Curious Curator

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TIL When charging car battery, connecting positive to negative and negative to positive could result in damage to the alternator or even an explosion.

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p8bJQ TIL that the actor playing Junior Soprano's oncologist in the Sopranos is the same actor playing Walter White's oncologist in Breaking Bad

awYyN TIL that the Platypus lacks nipples so will feed it's young by essentially sweating out milk from it's skin

VMWxk TIL: Altitude can effect how we perceive taste. Thus airlines alter food pallets specifically for high altitude enjoyment.

DevY TIL when Igor Stravinsky’s ballet “The Rite of Spring” premiered in 1913 Paris, the audience was so shocked that loud derisive laughter and jeers forced the performance to stop. Pandemonium ensued when people in the audience began fighting and throwing things at the orchestra.

epjyk TIL that in the late 1600s Emperor K'ang Hsi, who had survived smallpox as a child, had his children inoculated. That method involved grinding up smallpox scabs and blowing the matter into nostril. Inoculation may also have been practiced by scratching matter from a smallpox sore into the skin.