Post * OG4Q1 — Curious Curator

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TIL: The full quote is "The customer is always right in matters of taste"

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BDAk TIL of David Burke, a disgruntled ex-employee of an airline company who was able to board a plane, shoot his former boss and the pilots, and crashed the plane, killing a total of 43 people.

ADGwo TIL that Karl Pilkington's brother was kicked out of the army for driving a tank down the high street to get a packet of fags.

W7jo4 TIL The Second Law of Thermodynamics says hot always move toward cold until thermal equilibrium is reached. So when it feels like "cold" is moving toward you (like when you open a freezer), what’s actually happening is the heat from your body is leaving you for the cold in the freezer.

LQM8Q TIL that the Indian mathematician and astronomer Baudhayana, who lived around 800 BCE, wrote the Baudhayana Sulba Sutra, which describes the construction of various geometric shapes using a rope known as a "sulba” with precise geometric measurements, the Pythagorean theorem, area of a circle.

epkOb TIL about the Gaelic Celtic tradition of Keening, a verbal singing and mourning for the dead