Post * Koa6 — Curious Curator

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TIL that as NASA’s Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft swung past Earth on Oct. 9, 2013, amateur radio operators around the world sent a Morse Code “HI” to the spacecraft, and Juno heard them!

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KOKJB TIL Louise Fletcher (Nurse Ratchet in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) was so upset that the other actors could laugh and be happy while she had to be so cold and heartless that near the end of production she removed her dress and stood in only her panties to prove she was not a cold-hearted monster

OlpX TIL that the brain detects if your diet misses some important nutrients, and then makes you eat food that contains them.

ADPOa TIL magenta is an imaginary color; allcolors have their own wave length except magenta. The only wave lengths between blue and red are yellow green and orange etc if blue cones are slightly stimulated and red cones are slightly stimulated, but green isn’t detecting anything own brains create magenta

4XEmo TIL that sustaining a second concussion before fully recovering from an initial one (even an extremely minor one) can cause a condition called Second Impact Syndrome, which causes severe brain damage 100% of the time and frequently results in death.

5VG5p TIL ancient Roman tourists would visit Egyptian tombs and write negative reviews in graffiti, like not enjoying anything but the sarcophagus and being unhappy they couldn't read the hieroglyphs. These would ironically end up becoming valuable historical records themselves.