Post * N7kOb — Curious Curator

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TIL despite our thinking of the Big Bang as the universe’s “let there be light” moment, light did not exist until 240,000-300,000 years later.

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gr0Pb TIL that in 1814, a London brewery experienced a "beer flood" when a giant vat containing over 300,000 gallons of beer burst. The explosion caused a domino effect, breaking open other vats, and led to a tidal wave of beer flooding the streets of St. Giles. Tragically, nine people lost their lives.

o758 TIL there is a theatre company that reenacts the last moments of doomed flights by acting out the cockpit voice recordings.

OZEY TIL The pilot episode of LOST was so expensive (~$14million) that the network president was fired for greenlighting it.

E1L0P TIL that Marius, a giraffe bred at Copenhagen Zoo was euthanized and publicly dissected at 2 years of age because they didn't want to breed him. He was then fed to lions. This was in spite of other Zoos offering to give Marius a permanent home.

e0AYL TIL: A man named Robert Shields wrote the longest diary in history - 37.5 million words written over a 25 year period until he was disabled by a stroke. He spent hours every day chronically the most minute details of his daily life and even limited sleep to 2 hours at a time to record his dreams.