Post * LQxMV — Curious Curator

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Today I learned that the lyrics of "baby owl" are actually the lyrics of "baby i'll rule"

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MekmA TIL that a young Irishman threw a message in a bottle from the sinking Titanic. He drowned. A year later, the bottle washed up on a beach — just a few miles from his mother’s home in Ireland.

PY8Kg TIL that Dutch inventor Philip Nitschke also known as “Dr. Death” has created the worlds first suicide pod known as the “Sarco”. A button is pressed and the capsule is filled with nitrogen. The person will feel a bit dizzy but will then rapidly lose consciousness and die.

XLK6 TIL IBMs Super-Computer Watson invented the term ‘wang-bang’ when it did not know the correct name for a “boxing hit that lands below the belt” on a game of Jeopardy.

XEv7R TIL - NASA's Mars team used the term milli-pirate-ninjas to indicate watt hours generated per sol, as an homage to Watney's invention in The Martian.

R5MEa TIL that Napoleon’s “love stick” was cut off during autopsy, smuggled off the island by his Chaplin, sold between a few book companies, and is now owned by a daughter of a urologist.