Post * KYlka — Curious Curator

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TIL: I learned about the NSO group who recently made headlines again, phone privacy and security is a scary rabbit hole.

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Pg8Z TIL that in 1775 the royal governor of Virginia offered slaves freedom if they fought for the british in the American Revolution. After the war, the promise was kept with about 14k slaves being freed.

neEDb TIL Gold is an inert noble metal as it does not react with other elements. It is the most malleable and ductile of all known metals. An ounce of gold can be beaten into a sheet measuring 300 square feet or stretched into a gold thread 5 miles long.

j6bn TIL a scientist allowed 78 bees, wasps and ants sting him to produce a ‘pain index’. he described the bullet ant’s sting as like fire-walking over flaming charcoal with a 3-inch rusty nail grinding into your heel.

ZeX4 TIL that actor Jack Nicholson didn’t find out until his mid thirties that his “parents” were actually his grandparents and his “sister” was his mother

WkjwN TIL that the pen caps have holes in them to prevent suffocation, in case they were swallowed. As roughly 100 people die in the US each year from choking on pen lids