Post * Mkl7 — Curious Curator

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TIL that Credit Unions are ‘not for profit’ institutions that use profit to offer lower interest rates to members and distribute additional revenue to members in the form of dividends.

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dDy4K TIL Kamikazes were the most effective anti-ship weapon in history: 100% of the ships attacked by at least two kamikazes were forced to go for repairs

ZpXNQ Today I learned that if a spider is big enough, it can hiss by moving the hairs on its body a certain way - it sounds somewhere between rustling leaves and a snake

vPaj4 TIL the Apollo 10 Mission was a dress rehearsal for the Apollo 11 Moon Landing. Astronauts Stafford and Cernan descended to about 8 miles above the moon. The lunar module they flew was capable of landing, but their mission was to photograph the landing site for Armstrong and Aldrin two months later.

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.

X0GVX TIL there's 110 million landmines still buried, across nearly 70 countries