Post * KOa0w — Curious Curator

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TIL NASCAR had a shot at the 24 Hours Of Le Mans during the 1976 run

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OpZg TIL the University of Texas sniper, Charles Whitman, who killed 15 people from a tower in 1966, sought psychiatric help on multiple occasions in the months before his murder spree. He asked in a note that his brain be examined after his death to find what was wrong. A brain tumor was indeed found.

AJjl TIL the original idea for the episode, Jurassic Bark, was to have Fry’s mother fossilized instead of Seymour, but this idea was scrapped after it was thought to be too upsetting to the audience.

16An8 TIL Women’s Peak Fertility is at 24. Women HIT THE WALL at 30. Women over 35 is called ELDERLY primigravid and over-35 pregnancy is called GERIATRIC. #SCIENCE

KOeZJ TIL that although red, yellow and green LED lights have been widely available since the 1960s, blue and white LEDs did not exist until the 1990s. The people who invented the blue LED won the Nobel prize for it in 2014, as it finally allowed for them to display the full color spectrum with LEDs.

E1mYx TIL in 1793, Thomas Jefferson requested a 1kg copper cylinder from France, to be used as a weight standard in adopting the metric system in the United States. The ship carrying the copper was blown off course into the Caribbean, where it was looted by pirates.