Post * LkejV — Curious Curator

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TIL that a skinny person has a more inefficient/slow metabolism rather than a fast metabolism

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xLkB TIL Russia built and flew a nuclear powered bomber that killed its own crew by lack of radioactive shielding.

PrEV TIL that dogs have only recently been able to watch TV, with the advent of HDTV with their higher framerates. Before that, with CRT’s, it was like watching a strobe light.

OPlL TIL a man turned himself in to the police after his computer was infected with ransomware that displayed a fake FBI warning accusing him of possessing child pornography, because he actually had a hard drive full of child pornography and thought he had been caught.

wXNM TIL that acid in the 60s was so much stronger that you would have to eat 7.8 tabs of today’s acid to have a similar experience.

kOYmm TIL Canada fixes the price of dairy by law, costing Canadians an additional $300 in groceries per year — and you can go to prison for smuggling cheese across the border.