Post * NBxP — Curious Curator

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TIL WD-40 was originally designed to protect the exterior of Atlas Missiles from water and corrosion. It worked so well that employees started to sneak it home to use on other things.

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N6MJ TIL When Jimmy Carter was a young Nuclear officer in the US Navy, they sent him to help a partial meltdown in a Canadian nuclear reactor. They built an exact copy of the reactor to train with, then lowered him into the still extremely radioactive reactor to take it apart one piece at a time.

PPkO TIL the children left in the countryside by China’s migrant workers are targeted for sexual abuse: on the occasion that a rape case makes it to court, the victim is awarded as little as $15 in damages

LQE9P TIL there was a UK adaptation of the American show Golden Girls called "The Brighton Belles". The British version was released a year after the Golden Girl's final episode and was nearly identical to the original except for name changes.

vkEx TIL that Michael Crichton only wrote his novel The Lost World, sequel to Jurassic Park, when being pressured by fans, critics and Steven Spielberg, who wanted to make another movie. It was the only sequel he ever wrote.

7KlX TIL all things observable–the stars, planets and galaxies that can be seen today–make up just 4% of the universe. The other 96% is made of stuff astronomers can’t see, detect or even comprehend.