Post * JYpll — Curious Curator

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TIL that colors change with under water depth, turning gray as denser water absorbs more frequencies quicker.

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wLlRJ TIL Howard Foote Jr's took an A-4 Skyhawk for a joyride, his safety attributed to experience, skill, and ~100 hours on a flight simulator. Charges brought against him included hazarding a vessel. After 4.5 months in the brig, he got off with just time served and an other-than-honorable discharge.

VVwZ TIL there is a massive amount of water under the Earth’s crust, nearly equal to the mass of all the water in Earth’s oceans.

wLAQ1 TIL a Canadian man getting a rectal exam by his doctor at a hospital was observed by people he assumed were medical practitioners/med students. He sued the hospital and observers after learning the observers were two actors who play doctors on TV doing research for the TV series "Saving Hope."

EgZPX TIL of Charles Valadier, a dentist who used his Rolls Royce 'Silver Ghost' as a mobile dental surgery unit to treat facial injuries of wounded soldiers on the front during World War 1. Using the Rolls-Royce on the frontline, Valadier became a pioneer of maxillofacial reconstructive surgery.

epKJ4 TIL The F150 is the ninth most popular vehicle in the world, despite having virtually no sales outside the US. The only other American cars in the top ten are Teslas, which sell world-wide.